The Future of the COVID Story
July 31, 2020 [see also: “Only ‘Control’ + COVID-Whirlpool = DISASTER“] I started writing MINDING CORONA in March, with 12 points. They’re still valid. After five months, of course, we know a bit more about the future. So, I can recapitulate and see what is bound to happen. The near future is grim. Not Read the full article…
22. Only ‘Control’ + COVID-Whirlpool = DISASTER
July 31, 2020 [see also: “The Future of the COVID Story”] I am a medical doctor, specialized in mind-body medicine, master in cognitive science and A.I. The reason I start with this is that my expertise is absolutely pertinent, on par with, and complementary to the expertise of virologists. So, I wrote a book, Read the full article…
21. How to Make Someone Take His Vaccination – The Friendly Way
A little story of long ago At 23 years of age, I went to Brazil for a few months, to do medical work in a favela (shantytown) of Salvador Da Bahia. Ow, impressionable youth! As part of my documentation, I read a book about medics in the tropics. One story in this book was meant Read the full article…
20. Autumn of COVID: Disaster2 Already?
(Re-)emergence COVID (re-)emerges in all kinds of countries where strict measures have not been maintained. This includes countries where the virus has never well receded (such as the US), countries where it has not peaked before (such as parts of Australia), and countries that saw a huge decrease after disaster (such as Spain and Belgium). Read the full article…
19. The Virus is Not the Enemy – War is Not the Answer
This goes further upon chapter 7, written three months and half a million official COVID deaths ago. Did you hear anyone talking about the psyche in causality yet? I mean, anyone except me? The virus side The virus is just a piece of RNA that wears a coating when outside of the living cells that Read the full article…
The Message of Awe
Some experience it daily, others just sporadically. Everybody knows awe, yet it remains strangely elusive. Diminishing the elusiveness may detract from the mystery. It may also Open one up to even more depth. Awe cannot be coerced ― yet it can be invited. For instance, through the environment: the mountains, the sea, a sunset or Read the full article…
Face Mask Meditation
Wearing a face mask during formal group-meditation may be less comfortable. It may also be more interesting. Readers may know me as a meditator I am a very inconsistent one. Sometimes, I go to a group for ‘formal meditation’ on a cushion. Sometimes, I go to a seven-day meditation. I would like to go more Read the full article…
18. Corona: Super-Stress, Super-Spreading?
On top of an influence on COVID-progression, does stress also influence the rate of infection by infected persons? In that case, can the AURELIS-app diminish this rate? July 26, 2020 Super-spreading Some viral-infected people spread the virus more than others. This has been found in many infectious diseases, including in salmonellosis, tuberculosis, SARS-1 (2003) and Read the full article…
Headscarf Here, Headscarf There
When I see a girl or woman walking down the street with a headscarf and bent shoulders, a bit sad from afar, I wonder if her troubles come from cultural oppression. I want to ask her but don’t, politely. Some bragging: in 1987, I had an Arab year. After eight months of intensive self-study, in Read the full article…
Free App to Relieve COVID
We have developed an app, free to everyone, that can alleviate a huge amount of human suffering related to COVID. You can find it in Google and Apple app stores as ‘Aurelis’ app. Feel free to download. Please share this post with your friends. You also find a link to the app and some more Read the full article…
Masked Poetry
For the doctors and nurses Who give more than ever you can Please put on your mask. For the beauty of eyes That are looking at a beautiful world From right above a mask, For your parents and grandparents Who want to keep getting your love Keep on that face mask. Read the full article…
17. Leadership in Corona Times
July 22, 2020 Daily Total Cases worldwide 239.113 15.084.963 Deaths worldwide 5.678 618.493 Becoming Open This chapter is targeted to right within the second COVID-wave. It’s a letter to the near future. With leadership, I don’t mean bossy figures who tell others what to do. You might take a look at my book Read the full article…
Open Letter to Leadership in Second Wave of Corona
A second wave in the US and Europe is almost inevitable. Of course, let’s not forget the rest of the world, especially the countries with much fewer resources. Much can be done to alleviate it if not only the virus is looked at, but also the human being. We urgently need to dare to question Read the full article…
Why and How to Wear a Face Mask
There is a difference between motivation and coercion, even when using scientific arguments. If one wants people – including oneself – to wear and continue wearing face masks, one needs to motivate them. This is: to provide them with the means by which they can motivate themselves. There is no other way. Besides, it’s an Read the full article…
Are you Interested in Making the Future Together?
Let’s not get defeated by the virus. International top specialists say a second COVID wave is inevitable in the autumn. It seems they are wrong in that it will come sooner. In any case, autumn will be worse and winter even worse than that. We just came out of a mental-physical whirlpool. Virologists are specialists in virology, Read the full article…
People ‘Believe’ in You: as a Weatherman or Santaclaus?
A weatherman plays with statistics. Santaclaus works with toys and children’s souls. When people notice that you act differently than you say, they don’t ‘believe’ you anymore. I use quotes because ‘believe’ is a term with two meanings that are very different from each other, which may often lead to misunderstandings. The first meaning of Read the full article…
Lonely at the Top?
One is not lonely by being alone, but by losing oneself. You may have already heard the expression in the title, or even experienced it yourself. Of course, one does not have to be at the top to be lonely. Loneliness occurs in all walks of life. One can therefore also reverse the expression. The Read the full article…