Various healers through the ages have looked at the links between underlying emotions, or maybe Karma, or maybe God, and the trials people suffer.
It’s in the Old Testament, Eastern religions, 1800s authors (See the Scarlet Letter or Moby Dick) etc. I don’t want to make a case for or against the idea here, but rather, just for a moment, look at what seems a Twilight Zone moment happening right now.
One aspect of the idea is that symptoms of a disease express the emotions underlying the disease. I’ve heard of a number of these links but the one that rattles around in my head is this:
Anger manifests itself as a cough.
And here is Covid-19 spreading through the world, and all the news for the years leading up to that have been about how angry and divided people are. In this country, but in the world as well.
Populist leaders rising to power riding the anger of people who feel they have been ignored and betrayed by those traditionally in power.
And then a backlash of anger from those who hate the populist, often authoritarian, leaders.
Judging by my FaceBook feed, there are a lot of people just boiling over with anger at Trump. Who continues to be popular amongst all those who are furious at the liberals ruining our country with their hypocritical self-serving policies.
Maybe Anger is the Pandemic, and Covid-19 the symptom. Maybe, yes we need to wash our hands, but also, maybe start to try to figure out how to dial back the divisive anger pervading our country and the world as well.
