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Gore Vidal coined the phrase United States of Amnesia to highlight the appalling lack of interest in our history that seems to characterize our culture. It seems we simply want to do anything but learn from the past. It might be worthwhile to give it a try, however. Recently, my mind goes back to other times of paradigm change, as undoubtedly, we are in the middle of such a time right now. Martin Luther was a very tortured soul, and even today, you can sense this in a Lutheran church. He remained faithful to the idea of one church, just minus the things he thought were abusive. The only mistake he made, was the one we all make, confusing content and form. Of course, there is only one church, but that church is not a physical institution, for My Kingdom is not of this world. Period. Full Stop.

Helen Shucman and Bill Thetford, the two people who collaborated in the scribing of A Course in Miracles, at one time were flying back to New York from Rochester, MN, after a visit to the Mayo Clinic, where they had also tried to find a historical church that had however been demolished. On the way back, they helped a young woman on the plane who was clearly having a struggle with something, and at that point, Helen heard the voice of Jesus, which was very familiar from her experience with the dictation of the Course, and it said to her: “And this is my church.” Evidently, the church, in that sense, is the community of the faithful, independent of any building. It’s “where two or three are gathered in my name,” and not per se any physical building (See Ken Wapnick, Absence from Felicity, p. 108-111).

Projection means that you are seeing things outside yourself in the world, and giving them meaning. In the paranoid schizophrenic ideation, which is the ego’s world, this is our one most constant misperception, that we think we see in the world what is really going on in the mind, but we fail to recognize it for what it is. This is actually where history can be helpful, both on an individual and on a collective level. For we are like Don Quijote, chasing windmills. That is just the situation; no reason to be sad about it: however, laughter helps, so by all means, re-read Cervantes; it might cheer you up! But, getting back to Luther, he smelled a rat. The idea of selling indulgences, so sinners would be assured a place in heaven for money was a bridge too far for him. He had to revolt. But in spirit, he stayed close to the religious outlook of the Catholic Church; however, what ended up evolving is the whole reformation, and a splintering of the Christian world.

So, with our split mind, we see outside what is going on inside, but we don’t realize it, because we deny it and repress it. That is what sets up the projection.

Projection makes perception. ²The world you see is what you gave it, nothing more than that. ³But though it is no more than that, it is not less. Therefore, to you it is important. It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition. As a man thinketh, so does he perceive. Therefore, seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. Perception is a result and not a cause. And that is why order of difficulty in miracles is meaningless. ¹Everything looked upon with vision is healed and holy. ¹¹Nothing perceived without it means anything. ¹²And where there is no meaning, there is chaos. (ACIM, T-21.in.1:1-12)

However, looking at history, our own or collective history, we can see the same patterns repeating endlessly; upon having the “tiny mad idea” of separation, we deny it and project it, and we see a hostile world attacking us. But sometimes we have that feeling of déjà-vu, which makes us feel like we came this way before, and ever so vaguely, at some point, it might dawn on us that the one constant in the picture is us, the observer, us. Oh, wait a minute, are you saying I might have something to do with it? That is enough; that is a beginning; that is when we may realize that by ourselves, we are going around in circles, and stay stuck in repetitive patterns. This is when we pray for “another way,” a shift in perception, a change of mind, or a metanoia in New Testament Greek terminology. It means not just repentance, but a total change of our entire frame of reference.

So indeed, selling indulgences is silly, for the problem of our guilt is inside, and cannot be assuaged by anything outside; it can only be resolved inside. Today, the same applies to vaccinations. We expected the sun and the moon and the stars, not realizing that we were merely afraid of nothing, of a virus that probably did not even exist, as more and more people are now starting to realize. The first order of business, then, is to realize we indeed have nothing to fear except fear itself. We need to forgive not the virus, but ourselves for being afraid of the virus, and for falling prey to the mass hysteria that went on, which was encouraged by the media. A healthy diet, adequate vitamin D, and some nasal flushes, could have prevented the whole pandemic, and for a few serious cases, there was plentiful early treatment available, had it not been maliciously suppressed.

In a lot of ways, the vaccines were artificially promoted, by promoting panic, by suppressing viable early treatments, and by failing to explain to people that 95% of “Covid” deaths were about comorbidities in the first place, and that all or most of these comorbidities are preventable and reversible with a whole foods, plant-based diet and a healthy lifestyle.

So they were sold like indulgences, some magical get-out-of-jail-free card. Are you surprised it did not work? Should you be? None of it made any sense. Don Quijote is another way of looking in the mirror; whenever you stop long enough to realize that nothing you are doing is working, that is the time for reflection.

The answer is always and forever to be found inside, and it does not matter how that works for you. You can call on Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Mary, Quan Yin, Buddha, Allah, Krishna, or whatever name you give to that quiet presence inside. You start to realize that the peace is inside, nothing out there will ever bring you peace, which is not to say you might not take some kind of action, but if that action comes from a place of love, instead of a place of fear, everything changes. The panic subsides, for the desperation only ever came from doing the same thing and expecting different results. That life offered no hope. Your new life offers a new beginning, and it is up to you to decide if you want to watch another rerun in the theater of fear, or if you’re ready for a fresh start. The choice is always now, when you start to recognize the pattern.

The pattern here, the déjà-vu, is the denial of my decision to be separate, i.e., the crest of the wave pretending it is the ocean, and then to project that attack (i.e., splitting off from the oneness of Heaven) onto an enemy, an imaginary virus in this most recent episode, and then our modern church, which is the medical-industrial-complex and the religion of the body, now locks you up at home, and sells you indulgences on your government credit card, so you will be liberated from the lock-up they just imposed if you buy their vaccine. Not only that, they gave you a cash advance from the same government credit card.

Hilariously, the hundred-year fraud of viruses as the singular cause of this bout of respiratory infections is now being debunked more vigorously than ever before, both theoretically, and in the fact that not a single research institution in the world can document an isolated virus. Moreover, we know that even if there were a respiratory virus, it wasn’t “novel,” for 83% of the Diamond Princess population did NOT get infected, and some of them shared cabins, where one got infected but the other one did not. We also know circumstantially a virus was not the cause by the facts that adequate vitamin D3 levels, or a whole foods, plant-based diet, plus maybe some nasal flushes, could have largely prevented the problem.

Yet another circumstantial proof comes from Prof. Denis Rancourt in Canada as well as research in Lombardy, showing clearly that the statistics on the spread could not possibly represent a respiratory virus. Lastly, taken altogether, the statistics show clearly that we would have been far better off doing nothing, than tanking the world economy into a recession. In short, the whole thing was a maladaptive response to a non-existent problem, which is how my teacher, Ken Wapnick, used to describe the ego system in general.

It is important to realize that for the people who are caught up in the virus cult, and who believe the vaccinations are salvation, there is probably very little you could do. They are so identified with this issue, you do not challenge the perception of someone who is having a psychotic episode. They will have to wake up of their own accord, and unfortunately, right now, it’s killing growing numbers of people. This has nothing to do with “mass formation,” and other novel concepts, much less with “novel” viruses.

At this level, it is down to people’s most fundamental beliefs as to who and what they are, and the thing to do is to choose forgiveness, for as long as you are coming from judgment, you are attacking their belief system, and that will not end well, but by practicing true empathy, we realize that every brother we meet, but cannot reach is holding up a mirror, for this level of cosmic disconnect truly is reflective of that Tower of Babel, which is the ego system. So ultimately, we are forgiving ourselves, for having been wrong a million times, whenever we listened to our ego. Just maybe now we see it, and that is progress. That is the beginning of healing.

  • Rogier Fentener van Vlissingen

    Rogier Fentener van Vlissingen is a Dutch native, living in America since 1979, in both Connecticut and New York. He has worked in international shipping and most recently he has mostly been involved in energy efficiency and retrofitting. He is also a co-founder of a biotech, BCM Industries, which develops autologous organ repair tissues, and also a line of revolutionary IT equipment, computers and storage appliances, running on live neurons. He is an eager student of business, literature, history and spiritual traditions. He also teaches whole foods, plant-based nutrition and cooking. He published his first book in Holland in 1973. In 2007, Rogier published the book Closing the Circle: The Gospel of Thomas and A Course in Miracles. He blogs about energy retrofitting, energy finance, spirituality and whole-foods, plant-based nutrition and healthcare.

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