The spiritual principle behind the covid psychosis
Those who reject truth fall to the judgment of no longer being able to discern lies.
More than two years along, I still find myself astonished by the unique and obstinate delusion that true covid believers persist in, long after all the tenets of the Great Lie have been debunked.
Of course they have not been exposed to this debunking, because they listen only to mainstream sources and believe they are being told the truth.
Even so, this doesn’t explain the persistent failure to change course based on their actual experience, the utter lack of curiosity (and even hostility) toward other points of view, and the stubborn insistence that everything they’ve come to accept as gospel truth is such.
I recently returned from a trip to visit an old friend, stopping by along the way to see my grandmother.
My friend is someone I describe as an “NPR-listening liberal nerd”, a description he accepts as accurate (he actually contributed the “nerd” part when I was searching for a word to complete it).
He was terrified of covid and willingly stayed at home. He calls it, without irony, “The Plague” and talks about pre-covid as the “Before Time”. Even the fact that his 90-plus-year-old parents survived The Plague didn’t do anything to convince him it wasn’t uniquely dangerous.
Despite having all the injections, he had a bad bout of covid a few months ago and still hasn’t recovered completely. He struggles with fatigue and cardiac problems and can no longer go swimming. Of course I question whether those issues are really due to his illness or the shots.
We mostly stay away from discussing it, in order to maintain harmony. During my recent visit I did mention that the shots were responsible for many injuries and deaths. He said nothing.
While chatting with my grandmother, she mentioned that her atrial fibrillation, which she’s had for about eight years, got worse “about two years ago”. She used to be unaffected by it, but now easily gets out of breath.
About two years ago would have been right around the time that people in her age group got the first injection. She is a devoted disciple of Anthony Fauci and boasts about having had all her shots and boosters.
I told her that cardiac issues are one of the main side effects of the shots. She paused for a split second, looked away, and said firmly, “I’m not considering that, at all.” The mental shields went up, any ingression of truth was soundly turned away, and she went on chatting as if I’d said nothing.
The odd thing is, later in the conversation as we were discussing the obscenely high price of her blood thinner medication, she agreed with me about the dishonesty, corruption, and profit motives of Big Pharma. That just apparently doesn’t apply to the covid shots.
As I was thinking over this and pondering why on earth this resistance to the truth so stubbornly persists, a verse of Scripture came to mind that I think illuminates the phenomenon:
For to the one who has, more will be given, and he will have an abundance, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. (Matthew 13:12)
Jesus says this as part of his response to a question from the disciples: “Why do you speak to them in parables?” (13:10) I think it’s worth quoting in full, because it explains a spiritual principle that I think illuminates what’s going on:
And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. For to the one who has, more will be given, and he will have an abundance, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. Indeed, in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:
“‘“You will indeed hear but never understand,
and you will indeed see but never perceive.”
For this people's heart has grown dull,
and with their ears they can barely hear,
and their eyes they have closed,
lest they should see with their eyes
and hear with their ears
and understand with their heart
and turn, and I would heal them.’But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. (Matthew 13:11-17)
The spiritual principle at work when people hear Jesus’ teachings, and which I believe is also at work in the covid psychosis, is that those who hear truth, receive it, accept it, respond to it, and seek more of it, will be rewarded with understanding more truth. Those who close their ears and eyes, reject truth, substitute lies, and persist in them are less and less able to perceive truth. Their judgment is that they fall for deception because they are no longer able to distinguish between lies and truth.
The irony is that progressives like my friend believe they are able to shape and change reality by their words and actions. Their ideologies persistently defy natural law and the fabric of reality.
For example, my friend showed me an album of post-wedding shots he did for a couple of friends. One shot was of their heads: the wife lying on the grass and looking up at the husband, whose face is over hers tenderly looking down at her. My friend said, “If I was to do the shoot again today, I’d reverse them.” Of course such a shot would look a bit silly, but in his world, the nature of men and women and their relationship to one another must be subverted, reality and even beauty be damned.
This is ironic because while they believe they can shape and defy reality at will, they themselves fall victim to deception. They are not the masters and shapers of reality; none of us is. Our choice is either to discern it, accept it, and live accordingly, or receive the terrible judgement of no longer being able to understand it at all.
God help us to be people of the truth.
Awesome. By the summer of 2020 I began to hear alternative data that didn’t match the MSM which in general I had turned off but that these sources compared. I opened myself to the fact we may not be receiving the truth. I long knew that lots of set in stone medical treatments and medications were wrong and manipulated. Drugs dangerous. Once I made up my mind something bad, devious and dangerous was happening, a steady river of important information, certainly life saving, flowed my way. It all came my way—and to many others as well. By jabs time I knew I wasn’t getting any, that this was a plan of Satan to destroy humanity (a very scary moment for me) and Jesus gave me strength to resist. God knows whose eyes are open and will give us the discernment to make the choices we need to be of use to Him and others. You expressed these scriptures perfectly and give me hope and why I am different than those around me. I only pray I can live up to the awesome knowledge and powerful plan He the Creator of the Universe has for his children.
Nailed it. I will be sharing this. Just as it says in 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 "And for this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they might believe what is false in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness." They sure do take great pleasure in showing off their gold stars on their vax cards.