could lowering our defenses help us stay well physically and mentally?

in multiple articles, the science is clear. what often kills people infected with covid-19 is not a failure of the immune system to fight off the invading disease, it is an over-production of immune function. the atlantic’s ed yong (british science journalist) said earlier this week

… the really serious problems seem to occur not just as a consequence of the infection itself but because of the body’s attempt to fight that infection. so the immune system will typically mount some kind of defense against the virus. but in some cases, that defense goes berserk. so the immune system radically overreacts and launches what is known as a cytokine storm.”  — “vox” podcast interview with yong

this risk of over defense, apparently, is the real reason that older adults are more at risk of dying from the virus. not because we are weaker, but because we are more defended.

quantum science tells us that we are infinite beings, not solid matter. at the level of the quantum field underneath everything is just energy and light. so there is nothing truly “solid” about anything that may appear solid to us. a tree, a house, a couch, a mountain, a person and, yes, a deadly virus, is all just energy and light.

we also know from the more recent physicians (who have caught up with what metaphysicians have known for much longer) that our beliefs drive our experience of health. as dr. deepak chopra puts it, “our cells are eavesdropping on our thoughts.” so if our thoughts are saying, “there’s something out there that wants to get me and i need to defend against it,” then that may actually be our experience. unfortunately, in this case, that defense might kill us. the more our cells perceive an invader and put out a red alert to defeat it, the more likely a hyper immune response (see above).

in every “star trek” movie or tv episode i’ve ever seen there’s an inevitable point where the ship in peril has to choose between holding their deflector shields up and having enough energy to propel quickly out of there to a new dimension. “we can’t do it, captain, she’s going to blow,” will be forever seared in my consciousness. so what do they do? they always choose to take the risk of lowering the shields and using their energy to move.

we are infinite beings of light. we are safe because nothing can stick to us unless we let it. that doesn’t mean that if we get sick it’s our fault but it does mean that we can stop hoarding our vital energies to defend and we can use them to propel us into our next and greatest expression. there is nothing to defend against at the level of the infinite (and, as we have learned, hyper defense may be counterproductive).

to lower your deflector shields, say this aloud (cribbed from “access consciousness”) “everywhere i have believed that there is something out there that can and will get me and that i have to hoard my own vital energies to guard against it, and that i am not safe unless i do, and everything that is times a gazillion, am i willing to destroy and uncreate it all right now?”