The Imperative for a Paradigm Shift in Ethics

by Klaus Heinemann
8/26/2023

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We do not live in a vacuum. We live in a closed system. The Chinese symbol of the Yin and the Yang communicates that there is always an opportunity in a crisis, an “upside” after a “downside.” In this article we focus primarily on the potential upsides of the Covid-19 pandemic. We ponder what we, individually and collectively, can and must learn from this crisis. Will we continue to strive to revert back to “business as in the past,” or will we transform the pandemic into an “opportunity for living in a new paradigm” and rediscover societal and ethical values that got lost during the post WW II era?

WILL WE FINALLY LEARN WHAT IT MEANS TO LIVE IN ONE BIG, INTERCONNECTED SYSTEM
AND DO WHAT IS ESSENTIAL FOR THE LONG-TERM SURVIVAL OF OUR PLANET?

”Economically and spiritually speaking, the age of civilizations has ended, and that of one civilization is beginning..”
(Teilhard de Chardin, 1951)  

CONTENTS

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Introduction

I started to write this article with a very different introduction. The fast-paced developments around the Covid-19 pandemic caused me to place the original introduction more poignantly as “Afterword” at the end of this article. Please don’t miss it.

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On the eve of this decade (12/31/2019), Gundi and I were preparing to drive back from our Christmas holidays in Sea Ranch, California, to our home in Sunnyvale. The day would take a very different turn. A medical emergency developed, totally out of the blue, and by noon of that day I found myself, after an 80-mile ambulance ride, delivered at the emergency room of a big hospital in Santa Rosa. Quick expert medical intervention from the 3rd (and 4th) dimensions were so effective that a few hours later on the same day I was discharged, and we were able to spend New Years Eve in our home in Sunnyvale — almost as originally planned.

Was this a personal “coded message from the Grand Original Design”? When we look at the news and commentary about the pandemic, we find that the overwhelming concern people have been having — apart from minimizing human suffering — is how long it will take for our economy to be back on track, so we can resume “life as usual.”

Is that the right concern to be focusing on? Or is there something deeper we are to be learning from this crisis? The planet is revolting; are we to understand that the rift between our draining of the planet’s resources and spirituality — our connection to the Grand Original Design — has become dangerously wide and irreparably deep? Are we to understand that it is time to catch up evolving on the spiritual level, something humanity at large has essentially put on hold ever since WW II? Are we to learn to be discerning and choose spiritual over technological/materialistic values? Are we at the beginning of a paradigm shift [1] in the evolution of the human species, from a preoccupation on economic growth to emphasis on economic sustainability — and concomitant growth in ethics?

Looking back on the dreadful convolution of the pandemic and the political developments in the United States in the recent years, the above set of questions has to be amended to be more blunt. Is the unprecedented atmosphere of untruthfulness, misinformation, unethical behavior, intrigues, meanness, hatred, disrespect of people of different race and belief, willful disregard of civilized norms, bullying and belittling of opponents, utter hypocracy in our government, driving the blatant necessity of a paradigm shift to the extreme? Do we see that we are at the end of a “peduncle” — using Teilhard de Chardin’s wording — in the evolution of consciousness [12]? Do we understand that there is only one way to emerge victorious from the current stoppage of ethical evolution of the human species? Do we see that the paradigm shift we mentioned above is imperative, that there is no other choice? Do we sense that getting on the bandwagon of this paradigm shift is a question of life or death for subsequent generations? How clearly do the writings on the proverbial wall have to be so we heed them?

Putting the last decades in perspective

Let us put in perspective what has been happening in the world in recent decades. Among countless significant developments one could choose to discuss, we select the following four:

• The Doomsday Clock: Back in the 1970s and 1980s, my wife and I participated in a large activist movement in the United States that spread over the entire globe and warned of the dangers of nuclear power, and ultimately of nuclear weapons which, if unleashed in an accident or an act of political desperation, would have the potential of wiping out life on our planet as we know it. Consciousness about this “sword of Damocles” hanging over us led to more and more countries (including Germany) phasing out their nuclear power plant facilities, and it gave rise to nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation treaties. It resulted in arms treaties to the point that in 1991 the nuclear “doomsday clock” was set back to 17 minutes before midnight, the earliest it had been ever since the end of WWII. But on January 23, 2020, it was advanced to just 100 seconds (!) before midnight[2] — and this was even prior to the perceived beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. (1)  On January 24, 2023, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with renewed threats of escalation to nuclear war, and the general current state of the world, the clock was even further advanced to just 90 seconds before midnight — and that occurred in spite of the perceived waning of the pandemic. .  

• Incessant Warnings: In early 2015, Bill Gates warned that Word War III will not be fought with cataclysmic weapons, such as hydrogen bombs that will contaminate our entire planet, but with microbiological viruses. He pleaded that this is the area of defense in which we must invest if we want to survive. He pleaded, “If we start now, we could be ready for the next epidemic.”[3] The Obama Administration listened and started getting prepared.

• Closing of the White House Pandemic Office: However, in 2018 President Trump closed the White House’s National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense (called the “White House Pandemic Office”).[4] With correct foresight, such as Bill Gates and others (including best-selling author and WHO epidemiologist Dr. Larry Brilliant) voiced, this office should have become as important as the Pentagon is for warfare with conventional weaponry. Instead, it became the victim of a misguided political zeal.

• Accumulation of Wealth: None of these warnings, and many similar ones not mentioned here, have been heeded. Instead, the world community, mostly following the example of the United States, continued to pursue one and only one goal, which is the accumulation of wealth, highly concentrated on the most affluent citizens.

As predicted by Gates, Brilliant, and others, WW III did start. Not a war fought with weapons. Not fought against another nation or group of countries; not against a rogue foreign ruler, not against a group of terrorists. None of that. It was a war against a more formidable enemy than anyone of these. It was against a microbe so small [6] that you cannot even see it with a conventional (light) microscope. It takes a sophisticated transmission electron microscope (TEM) and special contrasting techniques to make it visible. The enemy in WW III is practically invisible! We — as a country and as a world community — had committed the cardinal sin in political oversight: we had ignored the signs of the times and kept preparing for fighting only with the traditional kind of adversary.

Humanity seems to be getting the upper hand in this war. But will there be a learning from the tragedy of having lost millions of lives in this war? How will life after this victory look like? Will it be a continuation of “life in the fast lane,” with emphasis on continual economic growth expectations, as it used to be in pre-WW III decades? With undiminished abuse of the life-sustaining resources of our planet?

Indications are that this time, even after “winning” the war on the Covid-19 microbe, humankind will have to continue to follow some significant life style adjustments. We may by now be closer to a state “herd immunity,” but the microbe is not eradicated. Infections can, and will, flare up; lives will continue to be lost to it. Life, as we knew it, will be different. (In fact, as I am updating this article, in late August 2023, my wife fell ill with Covid, and we have no clue where she might have been infected).

And these necessary lite style adjustments, in turn, bear the opportunity for advances in human consciousness at large. Now the cardinal question is, “Will humanity learn?”

In the initial 20-20 hindsight since the pandemic subsided, so far we see that mankind seems to have learned essentially nothing. In terms of consciousness, we picked up where we were on the eve of the pandemic. In fact, even worse: there is now a brutal war conducted with incredible weapons of destruction, in the heart of Europe. In addition, we still let it happen that thousands of people – not understanding that each one of them is a divine being – lose their lives during their desperate attempt to find better living conditions in countries other than what they call home. We let it happen that millions of world citizens die from hunger each year, caused by climate change that we let happen, and by refusal to ship food resources to where they are needed. We are, even more so than ever before, at the brink of an all-out nuclear war. We are polluting the air with CO2 essentially just the same as we did in 2019 on a global basis. We are contributing nothing more than a bit of lip service to the need for global change.

What have we learned from the pandemic?

The Chinese symbol of the Yin and the Yang communicates that there is always an opportunity to a crisis, an “upside” after a “downside.” In fact, there is even more to this wisdom: If there are no downsides, then there are no upsides! 

Downsides are part of the human life experience. Without them, we lose the appreciation of the positive, of the miraculous, of that which spices life with joy and happiness.

The news media are fully preoccupied with reporting on the downsides. We let them do what they do best, while we focus in this article on the upsides.

What have we learned from the pandemic?

• Realize that we all live in the same closed system: The law of closed systems includes that what we do affects everybody and everything in the system. For the virus, there are no borders, no boundaries. The only way to curtail its deadly power has been to be considerate ourselves with regard to how we affect others: to maintain safe interpersonal distances, to get vaccinated, and to wear a facial mask when we ourselves are knowingly infected with the virus. (We ourselves got infected in August, 2023, infected by no known cause, but most certainly by someone who was inconsiderate).

• Understand that there are no guarantees: we can adopt a behavior that can result in a reduction of the probability of infecting ourselves and others, but we know there is no guarantee. We can — and must — be responsible, but we are not in control.

• Be courteous: courtesy is a virtue worth adopting. When waiting in a line, keeping a distance to one another symbolizes that we honor each other’s space and well-being.

• Reduce CO2 footprint: Scientists agree that the biggest bio-physical threat to our planet is global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions into our atmosphere. The measures to curb the Covid-19 pandemic are based on social distancing, which drastically curtails the mobility of people. No other cause is even thinkable that would reduce the global consumption of fossil fuel — and thus the emission of CO2 into the air — more effectively than the reduction of automobile, airline, and cruise ship travel. We have seen the effects, but have we learned from them? 

• Spare the air: Drive less, leave our [gasoline “drinking”] cars in the garage and consider walking or biking.

• Convert to e-mobility.

• Try on-line meetings: Replace costly and CO2-polluting business travel with online meetings. We have seen the effect with our own eyes. Surf the Internet and be astonished about the examples you find how this Covid-19 crisis has – unfortunately only temporarily, as long as the Covid infection prevention measures were in place and observed --  cleaned up our air. Urban areas like Beijing, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Mexico City, Calcutta, and on and on all over the world, were so clean that you could see mountains in the distance as clear as never before.

• Vacation closer to home: find out that there is lots of opportunity to enjoy being away from home near-by, rather than driving super-long distances or flying to exotic international destinations. This will not only help in the all-important battle against global warming by reducing our carbon emission footprint, it will also stretch vacation budgets. This, in turn, will help to take longer vacations, reversing the trend of cutting vacations shorter and shorter. Our Pre-Covid, typical vacation rentals were booked for just two nights; this has more than doubled since the start of the pandemic.

• Chill down: Life can become less hectic. Our stress levels will be reduced, and our general health will improve. Our resistance to viral infections is greatly dependent on the health of our immune system. Our body’s immunological ability to avert viral attacks decreases when the stress level we experience in our lives increases. Spending less time in traffic, in airports, and in airplanes reduces stress and may well build up the effective “immunization” against killer viruses such as Covid-19 itself.

• Assimilate experiences: The Covid-19 crisis has given us an opportunity to reflect upon, reconsider, and re-align our unsustainable way of life. It provided opportunities to take more time for relationships (with family, friends, neighbors, colleagues); to assimilate experiences (not just piling one on top of another); to rediscover the joy of reading novels, poetry, anything that is longer than a few lines of text, as our de-facto limit used to be; to discover that standing in line somewhere is an opportunity for reflection; to do the ever-postponed project (organize your photo albums, memory chests, book shelves; write down your thoughts in a diary; write a book; open your piano or bring out your favorite instrument and practice long forgotten tunes; brush up on your skills that got so little attention in recent years of your busy life in the fast lane).

This sort of list can go on and on. When we recently cleaned up our attic, we found a box with 8mm movies we took decades ago — still unopened in the Kodak mailer in which they were sent back to us after development. It was so long ago that the phrase “[film] development” is no longer in a younger person’s vocabulary. There was certainly not much “assimilation” after we took those films.

Time, and not having enough of it, has been driving our lives, so much so that our incessant drive to pack more activity into the time we have has become detrimental to our health. Who knows how much the “upgrade” from 3G telecommunications to 4G and 5G, impacted the spread of the coronavirus?

We can change all that! We can learn to spend time to benefit us personally and those around us. It is a matter of the choices we take. Unquestionably, one significant upside of this lingering global health crisis, the pandemic, is that it presents us with time to re-evaluate lost virtues and become more conscious, empathetic, loving and caring human beings.

Now, many months later – having the perspective of some sort of 20/20 hindsight – how many of these potential teachings have we adopted?

Societal responsibility

I was born in Germany during WW II, and my personal memories go back to the immediate years following that war of all wars. What I personally remember is not so much the enormity of destruction and suffering we all experienced [9], but rather the love and care of the people around me who survived. People were helping one another. They were reaching out and sharing the little bit of what they had. People treated each other with respect. They were empathetic and thankful. We children had no monetarily valuable things to play with … but we were happy. People put their own interests aside and shared and helped others overcome their challenges.

We have in this paper primarily focused on the Covid-19 pandemic. It teaches us that we must tackle the societal problems of this world. These problems have come to a boiling point. Tens of thousands of desperate people fleeing unbearable living conditions in war-torn countries and drowning year by year in the Mediterranean Sea, thousands of helpless children pushed by their despairing parents across the Southern US border for hopefully a better life in the promised land of the North, millions of fellow human beings driven out of their homes by acts of war all over this world — all these tragedies cry out for our response.

One overreaching learning from the Covid-19 pandemic has certainly been that we have a responsibility that goes beyond our own self interest, something we call a societal responsibility. We argue, for example, that, whereby it is understandable when a person, for whatever reason, has reservations with regard to getting vaccinated, Covid-19 vaccination is our societal responsibility that we must consider as conscientious world citizens. (Read here more about this). When societies embrace this concept of societal responsibility, the long-term survival of our planet for future generations will be guaranteed.

Are we there yet?

41 million people perished in WW 1. A staggering loss of life — and the world started to learn from it. The famous psychiatrist and physician Dr. David Hawkins (1927 - 2012) developed a method with which he could rank the ethical value of virtually everything, of every aspect of existence, on a logarithmic scale of consciousness between 0 and 1000. On his scale — which is certainly not free from scrutiny by critics — humanity has been ranking around 200, which he defined as critical threshold between (negative) “force” and (positive) “power” [10].

I don’t know if Dr. Hawkins ever went into this detail, but he might well have described the period following this devastating first World War as a time when the consciousness of humanity at large rose — every so little and briefly — above 200. It is said that a wrong understanding of “winning” and “losing,” as it manifested in the Treaty of Versailles that ended WW 1, laid the foundation for the even more devastating second World War, which started just 20 years later and claimed almost twice as many lives. The leap in consciousness experienced by mankind as a result of WW 1 had not been sufficient to end the paradigm of valuing and using “force” over “power.” People fell back to their accustomed mode of thinking; the old paradigm of materialistic growth quickly outpaced the gains in collective consciousness which the horrible first world war had achieved as a by-product, and in the 1930s the world once again slipped below 200 on the Hawkins scale.

Now we find ourselves 3/4 of a century later. We have learned from WW 2 — but not enough. We have indeed understood that the hydrogen bomb is not the right weapon to solve conflicts. We have not [yet] experienced a “nuclear winter” [11]. This important realization has kept the world going. But that’s about it. Deployment of every other weapon of war is still considered “fair game” and almost indiscriminately used. In fact, our world leaders do not even take the potential use of nuclear weapons off the table. We continue to place our emphasis on “force.” Sadly, not even that is true anymore. Putin’s unilateral aggression of Ukraine has moved the world back to the mentality that caused, and sustained, WW 1 and 2. And not only that, nuclear weapons have meanwhile also been added to what is considered “fair game.”

But this time much more is at stake. We have brought the entire planet — the basis for existence of life as we know it — to the brink of sustainability. In 1940 the world population was 2 billion people; now it is 7.8 billion. In my lifetime, it grew by almost 400 percent. Let that fact sink in! It is said that the planet can carry even more, as many as 12 billion people. But the food is not grown, and goods are not manufactured, where they need to be to serve everybody. We have been able to send people to the moon and back. We have communication mechanisms that enable us to instantly see and essentially speak with anybody anywhere in the world. But to this day we have been unable — and for reasons of greed actually unwilling — to deal with the fact that over a billion human beings go to sleep hungry each and every day, and all this while in the “civilized” parts of the world more than half of the available food is trashed.

We have contaminated our planet to the extent that our protective atmospheric ozone layer can no longer produce sufficient life-preserving shielding from the natural influx of detrimental ultra-violet light. We have poisoned our air and drinking waters with huge amounts of unhealthy/carcinogenic pollutants. And we compromise the atmosphere we live in with ever-increasing, uncontrolled and widely uncontrollable amounts of electromagnetic stray fields (EMFs, see a separate white paper). We are using the resources of our planet as if their supply were endless. But they are not!

We are still far from living sustainably; our footprint — our use of resources as we live our lives — is still far greater than that which is being replenished as we go. Clearly, we need to re-invent what being “civilized” entails. We have been able to keep the air we breathe free from nuclear war-caused contamination, but we kill millions of people each year with other types of air and water pollution.

Furthermore, we are slowly, far too slowly, awakening to what it means that everyone of us has an equal right to pursuit of happiness. As a human species, we are beginning to understand that “Black Lives Matter.” But we still fail to see that this means more than equal access to dollars, goods, and services.

No, we are not there, yet. We have come to the most ominous decision point in the history of mankind. But we have not heeded the signs of the times. Our value system has not changed — if anything, it has deepened in the trenches of ranking below 200 on the Hawkins scale. Therefore, the planet — a living organism in its own right — is now presenting the decision point to us. The planet is hurting. It is revolting. Its message to us is loud and clear:

Change your value system.
The Planet Earth is given to you for a purpose.
It is your opportunity for growth in consciousness.

The Earth is now giving us the ultimate choice of “taking or leaving” it — of understanding what honoring life really means, or of bearing the consequence for our continued misbehavior.

Has the pandemic world crisis — WW 3 — led us to where we need to be? Has it helped us see the urgency? Do we understand that, this time, we MUST change our value system? Do we read the signs given to us in this crisis that returning to life as “usual” is NOT a “choice” outcome?

No, we are not there, yet. Not even close. But God willing, we will get there before it’s too late! Clearly the negative forces are still forcefully at work. The evil minds are redoubling their efforts as they see the positive take hold.

But this is part of the process leading toward every paradigm shift. A creative minority initiates a positive change, and the late adopters will eventually participate in the new way of doing things. To speak in Teilhard de Chardin’s metaphor: the peduncle has broken open. The new paradigm has started. There is no return. Let us use the power of focused thought — some call it “prayer” — to help the impending paradigm shift prevail.

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And the people stayed home; and read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And they listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. And the people began to think differently. And the people healed. And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the Earth began to heal. And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth.
(From “Dream of the world after Covid” by Kitty O’Meara, 3/18/2020)

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Afterword

Chapter 5 of our book “Phenomena - Code or the Grand Original Design”[7] includes a sub-chapter “Concerns about the Health of our Planet ” (pp.149ff). That the book was published in early October 2019, two months prior to the “accident” in Wuhan that started the Covid-19 pandemic. During the final editing phase, before releasing the manuscript to the publisher in October 2019, I removed two paragraphs, because I felt they were too much of a personal nature and, perhaps, my interpretation was too vague. I have now retrieved these two paragraphs from an earlier version of the book manuscript and offer them here as “afterword,” unabridged and unedited, exactly as they were written in Setember, 2019:

“This interpretation of learning from phenomena is particularly relevant to me personally. I see this in connection with unusual dreams with a recurring theme which I have been experiencing for the past several month [referring to approx. January - October 2019]. In a multitude of different settings, the recurring theme has been my — usually in some sort of group setting — involvement in preparation for some sort of “departure”: our airplane would leave at a certain time, and we needed to still pack or collect our luggage, get to the airport in time; or find our way back to the hotel and get a taxi; steer our way through an international border; catch the train to make it to the airport; listen to a lecture in a large auditorium before our departure; etc. etc. The commonality was a feeling of urgency to get something done before it is too late.   

While this sort of “dreams” would typically end prior to the situation becoming frantic, the sheer multitude of variations of this theme in my dreams indicates to me that I am being given notice of significant impending changes, which I interpret as not so much pertaining to myself as to the extended grouping I find myself being part of. Are they, i.e., cognizant and highly evolved beings on the other side of the veil, trying to get the attention of us, humanity at large, to listen to the signs of our time? Are they telling us about impending changes in our living conditions for which we have to be prepared? Certainly, what we know today about the global challenges facing our planet – such as the potential of nuclear and biological warfare, the dangers of nuclear energy production, global warming, overpopulation, natural catastrophes – suggests such an interpretation."       

Little did I know, when I wrote down these words – unedited between then and now (Aug 2023) – that I had been given premonitions of the biological war the world was to experience just a few months later. To me personally, this is yet another unequivocal proof that there are conscious “entities” on the other side of the veil that lovingly attempt to help us by communicating to us so we make the right decisions under the circumstances. Quite apparently, in 20/20 hindsight, the “circumstance” was the Covid-19 biological “war” which has fundamentally changed our way of living.

Notes:

[1] The dictionary defines “paradigm shift” as a “fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions.”

[2] According to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Doomsday Clock (https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/) was founded in 1945 by University of Chicago scientists who had helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project. It uses the imagery of apocalypse occurring at midnight in the time frame of the entire history of mankind being represented in one 24-hour day as countdown to midnight, to convey threats to humanity and the planet. The decision to move (or to leave in place) the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock is made every year by the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board in consultation with its Board of Sponsors, which includes 13 Nobel laureates. The Clock has become a universally recognized indicator of the world’s vulnerability to catastrophe from nuclear weapons, climate change, and disruptive technologies in other domains. Following the enactment of nuclear treaties under the Reagan and G.H. Bush presidencies, the clock was set back in 1991 to its farthest distance to midnight (17 minutes) it had seen since its inception. But as of January 23rd, 2020, the clock was advanced to just 100 seconds before midnight, closer that it had ever been. This happened – in the judgment of its distinguished sponsors – in consideration of the implications climate threats and the US retreat from the Paris Accords; the US retreat from nuclear weapons control treaties (Iran, Russia); the threat of politically unstable countries (North Korea) developing and deploying nuclear weapons; the threat of information biological weapons warfare; genetic engineering and synthetic biology technologies; and many other factors. (We recommend reading the very informative full article referenced above). The imminent danger of the Covid-19 pandemic was not fully recognized in that ranking. 
In January 24th, 2023, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock further forward, largely (though not exclusively) because of the mounting dangers of the war in Ukraine. The Clock now stands at 90 seconds to midnight—the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been.

[3] https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_the_next_outbreak_we_re_not_ready

[4] https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/nsc-pandemic-office-trump-closed/2020/03/13/a70de09c-6491-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html.

[6] The coronavirus (the Covid-19 particle) is about 300 nanometers (0.3 micrometers) in size. This equals the resolution limit of a good light microscope. (The resolution limit of a microscope is determined by the wavelength of the “light” used for the imaging process, and 0.3 micrometers would just barely equal the theoretical limit of 0.6 times the wavelength used, which would have to be monochromatic light in the blue-violet range of the spectrum to reach that resolution limit). But even then, the coronavirus will show just barely as an undefined blob in the best of best light microscopes. To show it in its full size one would need “light” at much shorter wavelength. And this is where the transmission electron microscope (TEM) comes in. It uses high-velocity electrons that have a wavelength of only a fraction of a nanometer (1 nm is 1000 times shorter than 1 micrometer, or 10-9 meter). The practical resolution limit of a TEM is about 3 nm, which is the range of atomic distances in molecules. To image a Covid-19 particle in a TEM is, therefore, in theory possible. However, in practice it must be prepared on a very thin carrier film (the “substrate”), and this must done in such a way that the features of the virus come out with enough contrast so they become distinguishable from the “phase contrast” features of the substrate, i.e., they must be artificially contrast enhanced. Once inserted into the microscope – which is technologically not trivial, because the electron beam used as “light” for TEM imaging requires a high vacuum (about one billionth of atmospheric pressure) – the electron beam used for imaging is relatively so energetic that it tends to destroy the features of the specimen quite quickly. All in all, this is to convey how difficult it is to even see the “enemy” of WW III.  

[7] Phenomena, Code of the Grand Original Design, https://www.healingguidance.net/books; we invite to click on the “more details …” and “conversations …” links. 

[9] On December 16, 1944, my home town was flattened in a bombing raid, destroying over 90% of the buildings in town and killing thousands of the 50,000 inhabitants.

[10] Dr. David Hawkins’ most prominent book is “Power vs. Force.”

[11] A “nuclear winter” is a period of years which would follow a full-blown nuclear war, caused by the dust particles jetted into the atmosphere by the explosion of the world’s nuclear bomb arsenals and the smoke following the ensuing firestorms. This doomsday concept does not even include or address the concomitant radiation poisoning of the earth following such a devastating, for all intents and purposes life-ending warfare.

[12] The mid 20th century scientist, philosopher, and religious scholar Pierre Teilhard de Chardin used the word “peduncle” well over 150 times in his writings (www.organism.earth/library/document/phyletic-structure-of-the-human-group). It describes the point in an evolutionary process where biophysical confines become so limiting, so oppressive that progress is no longer possible — view it as a closed bottle that is full to the brim and nothing can be added — and the only way out of the dilemma is breaking open the confines — view it as removing the lid of the bottle — and thus providing a new realm to expand into. The moment when the peduncle breaks open is a paradigm shift for the expansion of consciousness. That is where we are now in the history of mankind.

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Klaus Heinemann, 25 August 2023
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