Attached is an interesting article on the Covid vaccine written by a naturopathic practitioner:
@jeanne-mayell thank you so much for responding. I guess there is a danger in expecting too much of someone who appears to hold similar values (natural, spirit etc.), without knowing them because I thought, purely based on her books and articles, that Northrup was an enlightened, loving spirit. And maybe this pandemic is helping show us for who we are and where we stand, so we're not all hiding behind using the same language to mean, as it turns out, very different things. And as my mother says, "There have always been Charlatans!"
I did look up Dr. Weil, too, since you mentioned him, and he had some very helpful articles and videos explaining (and in praise of) the vaccines, which I thought I might pass on to some friends interested in holistic/integrated health...
And thank you @deetoo! That article was very helpful as well. I really like how he says vaccines were considered naturopathic when they were invented! I sometimes wonder if we could just solve this problem by renaming the vaccines ivermectin.!!
@meliaamal I think the short answer is that these people are still on their journey. They are in this semi-awakened state where they recognize some truth, but have not come fully out of the delusion of fear. However, that is to be expected... We all are at different points of this journey, for different reasons. The soul knows no fear and no separation. One of the main reasons we, as souls, come to this reality is to experience fear and to learn our way back to Love and Unity through that experience. There are very few persons who have ever really fully realized the end goal of that journey. Buddha and Jesus both come to mind. In their cases, they both came here and achieved full Awareness in order help others. We, however, don't need to be a Jesus or a Buddha in order to help others with their journey. We can help, simply, by sending out a prayer of Love; that each of these individuals learns the lessons they need to learn in order to serve the Greatest and Highest Good. ❤️
@frank thank you! I always love your thoughtful compassionate posts. Coincidentally, I was reading about Star Wars for my son and came across this quote from Yoda that echoes your remarks:
Beneath anger is always fear. Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
I do think a lot of people are very afraid. These are scary times so it makes sense. I will do my best to sit with peace, love and compassion for all. ❤️❤️
I love this post so much I am nominating it for the Hall of Fame so it can easily be found again and again. Thank you for your beautiful and wise words.
@deetoo Thanks for posting that Mother Jones article. I didn't mention this to @meliaamal, but when I convinced my vaccine phobic naturopathic friend to get the vaccine, I was bolstered by your own erudite decision-making process that you'd shared in deciding to get the vaccine.
@lovendures I want to second @frank's nomination! Thank you, frank. I love your perspective.
Hi all, some information from Britain and Australia
A British site regarding vaccine hesitancy (I was able to read this when I first went into the article but not when I went back again. It explained how to go about addressing peoples fears)
https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/ld/how-to-address-vaccine-hesitancy
Australian sites
Here's an article I read today that might have some bearing on Vaccine hesitancy in America.
Anti-Vaccine Chiropractors rising force of Covid-jab misinformation.