Seth on meditation and public health programs

[Sena]

This seems to be relevant to the current pandemic:

"Many of my readers are familiar with private meditation, when concentration is focused in one particular area. There are many methods and schools of thought here, but a highly suggestive state of mind results, in which spiritual, mental, and physical goals are sought. It is impossible to meditate without a goal, for that intent is itself a purpose. Unfortunately, many of your public health programs, and commercial statements through the various media, provide you with mass meditations of a most deplorable kind. I refer to those in which the specific symptoms of various diseases are given, in which the individual is further told to examine the body with those symptoms in mind. I also refer to those statements that just as unfortunately specify diseases for which the individual may experience no symptoms of an observable kind, but is cautioned that these disastrous physical events may be happening despite his or her feelings of good health. Here the generalized fears fostered by religious, scientific, and cultural beliefs are often given as blueprints of diseases in which a person can find a specific focus — the individual can say: "Of course, I feel listless, or panicky, or unsafe since I have such-and-such a disease.""
—Nature of Mass Events Chapter 2: Session 805, May 16, 1977

"Your television dramas, the cops-and-robbers shows, the spy productions, are simplistic, yet they relieve tension in a way that your public health announcements cannot do. The viewer can say: "Of course I feel panicky, unsafe, and frightened, because I live in such a violent world." The generalized fear can find a reason [for its existence]. But the programs at least provide a resolution dramatically set, while the public health announcements continue to generate unease. Those mass meditations therefore reinforce negative conditions."
—NoME Chapter 2: Session 805, May 16, 1977

"Many people in a quandary of indecision write to Ruburt. Such a correspondent might lament, for example: "I do not know what to do, or what direction to follow. I think that I could make music my career. I am musically gifted. On the other hand (pause), I feel a leaning toward psychology. I have not attended to my music lately, since I am so confused. Sometimes I think I could be a teacher. In the meantime, I am meditating and hoping that the answer will come." (Pause.) Such a person is afraid to trust any one impulse enough to act upon it. All remain equally probable activities. Meditation must be followed by action — and true meditation is action (underlined). Such people are afraid of making decisions, because they are afraid of their own impulses — and some of them can use meditation to dull their impulses, and actually prevent constructive action."
—NoME Chapter 8: Session 860, June 13, 1979

The following Seth pronouncement seems to imply that human thinking can have an effect on the coronavirus:

"And in a matter of speaking, again, man becomes the earth thinking, and thinking his own thoughts, man in his way specializes in the conscious work of the world—a work that is dependent upon the indispensable "unconscious" work of the rest of nature, a nature that sustains him (all very intently). And when he thinks, man thinks for the microbes, for the atoms and the molecules, for the smallest particles within his being, for the insects and for the rocks, for the creatures of the sky and the air and the oceans."
—Dreams Evolution and Value Fulfillment vol.1 Chapter 4: Session 899, February 6, 1980

[Deb]

And when he thinks, man thinks for the microbes, for the atoms and the molecules, for the smallest particles within his being,

Great collection of quotes. I remember Seth saying that public health announcements about blood pressure themselves raise the blood pressure of millions of television viewers, and the breast cancer suggestions associated with self-examinations have caused more cancers than any treatments have cured (NoME). These two statements of his are forever stuck in my mind. Our thoughts trickle down to the smallest particles within us.

Mass meditations are real. Mass hypnosis is real. I wish more people were aware of that. Passively viewing tv for less than a minute induces low alpha waves in the human brain—waves associated with shallow meditative states leaving people suggestible. http://www.iamawake.co/your-brain-waves-change-when-you-watch-tv/ :

"Advertisers have known about this for a long time and they know how to take advantage of this passive, suggestible, brain state of the TV viewer. There is no need for an advertiser to use subliminal messages. The brain is already in a receptive state, ready to absorb suggestions, within just a few seconds of the television being turned on. All advertisers have to do is flash a brand across the screen, and then attempt to make the viewer associate the product with something positive."

I'm glad I no longer have cable tv, the last time I watched tv (now I just use Netflix or Prime) I was appalled at the amount of commercials for pharmaceuticals. As Seth says, they start off with a new disease, give a list of symptoms so you can check your body for them, and end with happy and healthy people who are taking the meds. A lot of times the images of people really don't even make sense, as long as they prompt a good feeling. Remember the man and women from the Viagra commercial watching a beautiful sunset on their lawn in cast iron bathtubs? Silly.

One of the most important things Seth does for people is show them they have to be aware of and clean up their thoughts and beliefs. It's a constant task for me.

[Sena]

I'm glad I no longer have cable tv, the last time I watched tv (now I just use Netflix or Prime) I was appalled at the amount of commercials for pharmaceuticals.

Deb, that must be the situation in the United States. Not many pharmaceutical ads in the U.K. This may be why prescribed opioid abuse became more of a problem in the U.S.A.

[LarryH]

This may be why prescribed opioid abuse became more of a problem in the U.S.A.

Sena, I've never seen a commercial for opioids, but it's true that the drug industry pushes their prescription products directly to the consumer here. The actors play people with conditions that in many cases I've never heard of. You watch them play with their grandkids, participate in sports, smiling and laughing, while listening to a soothing female voice listing all the side effects, then suggesting that you "ask your doctor" if this drug would be good for you.

[Sena]

Sena, I've never seen a commercial for opioids,

Larry, that's interesting. Now I recall that court cases on opiods found some pharmaceutical companies guilty of pushing these products to doctors with exaggerated claims of the safety of opioid derivatives. Doctors are supposed to have the knowledge to avoid being unduly influenced, but perhaps "freebies" did influence them.

Broadly speaking, all these companies have been accused of fueling the nation's opioid crisis to line their own pockets — drugmakers by aggressively marketing their opioid treatments while downplaying addiction and overdose risks, and distributors by failing to detect, probe or report suspicious orders.

Historically, opioid medications in the U.S. were prescribed in cases of extreme need or for patients suffering a terminal illness. But in the late 1990s, the pharmaceutical industry began aggressively pushing the drugs for use in a much wider range of applications.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/10/15/761537367/your-guide-to-the-massive-and-massively-complex-opioid-litigation?t=1586794334906

[Deb]

I've heard from various sources (Joe Dispenza, Weston Price Foundation, news articles, etc.) that pharmaceutical companies have a big influence in medical schools, paying for continuing education classes, other things, and according to this article, producing textbooks for medical students that are no doubt biased in favor of the drugs and devices they produce.

"The truth is, it's hard to disentangle medical education from whatever the prevailing culture is in medicine, including ways of thinking or beliefs of the day about diagnosis or treatment," he says.

"And currently, the pharmaceutical and medical device industries continue to have much influence over the shaping of such beliefs."

Opioids are also mentioned in the article:
https://globalnews.ca/news/5738386/canadian-medical-school-funding/

I've also heard Big Pharma basically courts doctors to push their products, wining and dining them, free trips, and apparently even giving them cash according to this article:

"Doctors were paid for activities like dinner talks, sponsored speeches or consulting on products."

https://www.axios.com/doctors-big-pharma-drug-medical-device-payments-6526a1e3-04a0-41f3-b3f5-a520fa1e97dc.html

Pharmaceuticals are a huge money maker. It's a business and a businesses's goal is to make money.

My son's life depends on insulin and the price of insulin has tripled since he was diagnosed in kindergarten in 2001.

"Some patients have to make hard choices between paying for their medicine or other basic life necessities, such as food and electricity, or are even rationing their insulin, a dangerous practice that can lead to death." I've heard of cases of people dying from rationing insulin.

https://www.medicaleconomics.com/article/rising-price-insulin

[Sena]

My son's life depends on insulin and the price of insulin has tripled since he was diagnosed in kindergarten in 2001.

Deb, it should be a basic human principle in any civilized society that an absolutely essential medication like insulin should be given free by the government. Many other medications are not really essential and people should pay for them to reduce wastage.