Many, many years ago I read “The Phenomenon of Man” by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and his concept of a noosphere— a planetary mind and collective consciousness— stuck with me. I hadn’t thought of this for years, but the idea is spawning some thinking.
There’s some talk of mass formation psychosis happening throughout the planet and manifested in such things as undue fear of Covid-19. I haven’t really taken to that idea; this is just me and my way of looking at things, because the idea of mass formation psychosis is illuminating in many ways.
What I’m starting to think of is a simpler idea, which is that our noosphere has become corrupted, and this process didn’t start two years ago with Covid-19 but has been going on for some time. For example, our group mind concerning climate science has gone off the rails (I’ve written about this.) The best we can say about the science of CO2 catastrophic warming is that it’s sloppy and careless; the worst, that it’s a deliberate bastardization of the truth for nefarious means.
Let me define the corruption of the noosphere. I’d define it as the constriction of our natural openness and curiousity through trapping paradigms motivated (i.e., given impetus) by emotions such as fear and greed.
The corruption of medical science is becoming clearer and clearer to many people, although on the other hand many still believe and have faith in mainstream medicine. Covid-19 has exposed how out-of-sync with common sense public health, at least, can be. What flabbergasted me at the start of Covid-19 was how Dr. Zelenko’s protocol of azithromycin, zinc, and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ)to prevent serious Covid-19 was viciously put down. Anyone having anything to do with HCQ was attacked. But here’s the thing: what would the common-sense thing have been, if we were in the midst of a medical emergency and a doctor claimed he had a solution to this? The common-sense thing for a doctor in a position such as what Dr. Fauci had would’ve been to contact ten or twenty of his most trusted, objective colleagues and have them test the protocol. Would this have been a double-blind placebo, etc., etc., etc.? No. But it wouldn’t have needed to be: we were, supposedly, in an emergency, and we really only needed to know if clinical practice told us it was safe and effective. Meryl Nass has done a great job of cataloging the bizzarre goings-on regarding HCQ.
Our reaction to HCQ is an example of the corruption of our (medical) noosphere, and this constriction of the truth led to fear and to deaths.
We’re becoming a planetary mind constricted by fear. Moreover, it seems to me that there are people out there who get off on controlling others and bossing other people around, and maybe taking things that aren’t theirs. And it seems to me that maybe these types of people have risen to the top over many decades (centuries?) because they’ve learned to take advantage of good, decent people who care about others and who still have a good degree of natural openness and curiosity.
For things to become corrupted, it isn’t necessary for everyone to be in on it: the medical profession isn’t corrupted, for example, because everyone in it is devious, but because it only takes for most people to go along with things and not ask too many questions for groupthink or corruption to take hold.
Covid-19 has constricted our noosphere with fear, but this fear was wholly unnecessary, and we have good evidence that much of what happened was deliberately imposed precisely to induce fear.
Our noosphere has to embrace— acknowledge and move beyond— the corruption of climate science, and finance, and governments, and medicine, and the thinking that we need to create bioweapons. We need to see that various paradigms are so many thought-streams that have the potential to condition and constrict us, and we need to retrieve our natural openness, curiousity, good will, and tolerance toward others. This is the natural light of our noosphere, and in it we can see, and expose, the corruption that has taken place and wants to monitor and control everyone and everything, for its own ends.
So, I don’t know if the above is blathering or might be helpful, but I’m going to publish it anyhow. It’s been edited and expanded since first published.
🙏👍Jim, A unique perspective, which I’m always up for. You talked about the corruption of medical science. This particular matter was at the heart of my most recent project. You’ll see links to it on Meryl’s last piece. And I’ve forwarded this piece to my “CC” friend I spoke about earlier. GM