An Over Abundance of Stress of Strain

 in response to the themes in:

https://mikestone.substack.com/p/second-thoughts-on-the-germ-theory/

(The world I experience invites me to speak the 'deep end' - anyway. As I am alive.

"an over abundance of stress or strain"
 Mass hysteria shows up as anomalous to physical reality for those Not in its grip or after the shock has subsided.
Personal hysteria can mimic or pass off as disease - with or without symptoms - such as to be socially invisible.
The nature of our personal & social identity is a masking over, as a means of maintaining a functional focus in 'our consciousness' (as mental 'health') and world (as social function).
But for most, identity is set in dogma of a mind set in its own postulates. We learn & grow a masking adaptation within our self as with others and world - through which to live our experience of an embodied life running beneath an augmented or virtual frame of meanings set within a self-conditioned sense of self – taking its 'reality' from awareness of existence within the specific terrain of inner correspondences to outer conditions.
The former is of the nature of embracing Soul or Communication of, in and as Life - direct Participance cannot be substituted for by thought, but mind can be phished by its own image, to 'suffer or abide as' the grasp of a possessive or the recoil of attempt to get rid of its self - (hated or feared).
The psyche and its pathic or split minded conflict are one coin with two sides.
But a conflict persisted in must mask as a unified 'self' by the projection of its denials to the 'othered' by the Accuser as the basis for the Adversary by which to substitute struggle in terms of a masked deceit or threat 'hidden' in a world of treachery - for does not a seeming love so readily turn to hate? When the Enemy is 'scaped' or denied, does it not shift to another - indeed to any form or nature?
The need for 'enemy' is the 'defence-complex' running in our name as if self-protective but in truth sacrificial to defences that DO (or persist) the very thing they are held to save from.
Truth as our given or created awareness is no more trapped in thought by the emotional physical experience of thoughts given priority by reaction. But we have this experience as the framing of our life, self and world. More or less masking over a qualitatively felt nature of being that seems to be absent, denied or powerless to an inertial drama of a seeming compelled or driven momentum.

"And who told you you were naked?" said the Lord - represents the rising awareness of our being to the belief & experience of death of love or connection by which a separated, abandoned, rejected sense of self-lack must become the means of its own 'survival' in the set of its own 'terms'. As such is the living questioning of a dead world set in image & concept, by which to be healed or undone of our own grasping predicates and consequences or interpreted judgements.

Sickness as defence against truth, is extension of the use of body as masking limit and distance - by which attack is made real, and love weak, powerless & false.
Yet body-as-communication is the spectrum of tangible experience from 'gross to subtle'.
To use the body as the mind is in this way to be phished by a framework FOR experience, and tooled by technology of a-tempt to manipulate externally in 'solutions' to un-owned or discarded and denied inner relational conflicts.
Thus we inhabit or are entranced or our own 'solutions' running repackaged 'reality' as a world of 'lies' that runs out of space and time in which to hide or push out conflicts into be-live-able experience. So we experience a breakdown of world in ways our minds cannot understand but can only double down in existential survival - each as framed by our own interpretative condition.
Deconstructing the mask is the gift of the Holy Spirit (the movement of truth of being), the ego will gladly 'deconstruct its own masking' to more deeply hide in its own 'solutions'.
The difference is qualitative. Joy in being is wholeness now - as a flow of communication of true with-ness in shared worth-ship. Extension of life is its-our Nature, while the recoil of a self-inflation sets a withholding & withdrawal from our Field of Relation, as "an over abundance of stress or strain" seeking to normalise its condition by framing in limitation serving redistribution of fear, pain & loss.
In our terms read wealth, possession and control.
We cannot 'think' our true need met from the mind that set us in false 'solutions' that drive an abundance of lack (debt & misery). But our mind & thought shall be renewed by yielding up our 'predicates' to a love of unmanufactured truth.
As we release invested self-illusion, intuition of Life rises unobstructed.
That the mind-habit is persistent reflects a basis for natural discipline in place of struggle set in 'will to power'.
To be with our experience is in a sense undefended yet willingly present. Unconsciousness is not a solution to pain - which always has a root in the heart of life - even if 'justifiably' attributable to pathological or diabolical agents.
Thanks for the text box for sharing in the themes of our times!