Hi Tracy,

a great text, thank you. I read it with high interest.

I don't believe in the "them versus us" approach, as tempting as it is for me to think along these lines. In deed, I think that people with too much influence go crazy in the long run and start to fear everything and everyone. There is no need to copy them. Yet "we" (I, you?) copy.

What one thinks one is observing does not necessarily coincide with the reality one is observing. However, whenever observation and desire do not coincide, one tries to help things along. The observer influences what is observed.

I don't think that there are any possibilities to subjugate the masses with microchips and DNA manipulation and the like, i.e. that material means exist at all that are introduced into the individual to control him. Rather, it seems to be the belief that such things are possible that drives things forward and provides the means. So I go more with what you also express here in the text, that what one believes, comes "true".

As beautiful as science can be, it has clear limits. Analysis is one-sided because it separates, selects, cuts, reduces, enlarges, but always remains limited to the object to be analysed. If man were able to understand the sum of all parts, humanity as we know it would probably cease to exist (that's what I believe:).

At the moment when "everything seems to make sense", for me there is also the danger that one becomes absorbed in this sense and distracts oneself from the personal questions of life.

Whatever is contained in the medicines, injections and remedies that people take, it has different effects on the individual. For me, it hardly makes a difference whether one welcomes orthodox medicine or alternative medicine, whether one believes in orthodox medicine or another, in all cases it is the individual who hopes for improvement in his existence.

I feel my inner resistance when I watch my siblings swallow the many pills they have been prescribed by various diagnosed diseases or operations. It's like a kind of cult or ritual, the medication has to be taken at certain times of the day and always before or after meals. The modern old person defines themself by these infirmities and signs of old age on the one hand, and at the same time negates them on the other. They dye their hair, pretend to be twenty instead of sixty and so on. I want to learn not to feel that resistance but let it go.

For us rich people (so far I see myself as material-wise rich), it is probably too great an imposition to be mortal. We see few people die, we no longer accompany anyone at all when they die (and give birth), because birth and death take place outside our field of vision (in clinics). Seeing the dead makes us uncomfortable. We also don't see dead people on the side of the road. I have never seen anyone killed in my entire life, which I find remarkable, after all, I have been living in this world for over fifty years. Clearly, I live in a bubble.

This, I think, turned me into a weak and fearful human, with no experience whatsoever in witnessing death other than that of my parents, so far. Now it would be just as insane to wish to see more people die so that I can get used to the sight of death, wouldn't it? If I perceive such things as a potential for development for me, I shall go where people die or are already dead, shouldn't I? To a hospice or an undertaker, for example. Or find other means to help me in this regard.

What you say at the end, that things repeat themselves, it seems to me to be the lot of people who find themselves in the tension between "over-protection" and "under-protection" and where some die too much, others die too little.

Intervening in this field, wanting to influence it, leads precisely to this tension-filled field. Whereas one could recognise that in letting go of controlling death and birth, a more balanced situation would be found.

Perhaps man is incapable of letting go of control because of his awareness of himself.