An excellent and timely 15 minute read – highly recommended.
Here are a few excerpts:
“For people who are losing their source of income and/or their own health or the very lives of their loved ones, to hear someone proclaiming the many gifts that the pandemic bears can sound like so much new-age, feel-good, magical thinking nonsense. And yet, their reaction, though justified and steeped in truth, is revealing something about how to navigate the nature of the conversation into which we have all gotten drafted.”
“The fact that an event causes mass suffering doesn’t preclude that it can also contain within it a transformative gift – oftentimes events like these are the necessary catalyst to transform both individuals and our species as a whole.”
“And yet, these two polar opposite points of view—the pessimistic viewpoint which sees us creating hell on earth and the optimistic point of view which imagines that the pandemic will bring in a new, more grace-filled world—though seemingly contradictory and mutually exclusive, can both be seen to be potentially valid depending on the reference point through which they are viewed. It is as if our very situation is deeply “quantum” in nature, in that all possibilities exist in a state of quantum superposition, like multiple transparencies overlaid on each other, and which potential reality actually manifests depends upon how we relate to and make meaning out of what is being revealed to us.”