At One with Coronavirus.
Coronavirus is an aspect of nature. It arises in the context of us as part of the greater organism of nature. The virus and its effects are arising in a context that includes us. It could be argued that it arose as a response to human-created imbalances in the environment. If that is so, coronavirus is adaptive to our greater organism.
Viruses function as pieces of genetic code that cross between organisms to update them to new biological conditions. This is what allows us and all living creatures to stay in homeostatic balance with all of nature. We continuously live in a stew of trillions of viruses, not to mention other microorganisms. To try to isolate one of them as the problem in and of itself, whose eradication will surely save us is to completely ignore context and root causes.
Our sickness or health is not about our relationship to masks, hand sanitizers, politicians or policies, it’s always about our relationship with nature, which includes the above mentioned things and so much more. If we want to stay well under any circumstances we need to feel well. This means, we need to be at peace and in balance with our own feelings which arise in response to our environment.
If we are ill-at-ease, we need to consider the solutions we choose to our discomfort. Our culture currently offers many human-centric solutions. They are solutions derived from human need with a human identity that does not include the rest of nature. This means our solutions to our problems reflect the same disease that created the problems in the first place.
Creating solutions that are in balance with nature-at-large will help us find our human place in the bigger picture. Rather than putting ourselves in the apex (dominating) position of the evolutionary chain, a view that has wrought environmental havoc, we can find solutions that include the well-being of all of life’s creatures. This does not lessen us. This allows us to continue to exist. Peace, comfort and strength ensue as we develop a greater human identity which pits us not as one against nature, but comfortably situated as one with nature.