The “novel” coronavirus is, most certainly, an extremely threatening micro, micro, micro pathogen. There is a perception that this is a part of universal evolution that we need at this time. I do not wish to debate this point, but I do wish to point out something that happened for me and my wife yesterday.
As you are aware, our point – to – point movement that is so dependent on fossil fuels is incredibly curtailed at this time. We are staying home and figuring out how to teach virtually all curricula: grade school, high school, college, and post-graduate. We are eliminating large classrooms and lecture halls full of people who can contaminate each other with that thing we call the “novel” coronavirus. Those of us who have wisely decided to put a 2 metre space between any two of us can talk without the protection of a mask over nose and mouth. If we use such masks, we can get closer to each other without fear of infecting because the fabric of the mask traps the particles. I have insisted on these two methods working whenever anything in H.O.P.E. takes place if Skype and Zoom cannot be used.
What did I just say? Our close communication using electronic means makes it possible to stay at home, not burn any fuel, and get to see each other face-to-face.
There are concerns expressed about the third means of communicating beyond voice and micro gestures – consciousness! What we know about consciousness is it does not depend on space-time for communication to take place! Has anyone ever met a telepath? I had a distant cousin who had grown up in England, emigrated to Canada, but maintained constant non-verbal communication with his mother still in England! I know others who have communicated telepathically and it has been shown that that telepathic communication takes place instantaneously. Hmmm.
I needed to tell you this because I’m aware of the changes in communication today due to the novel coronavirus.
Yesterday evening, I witnessed something else. My wife and I were curious about the comet, Neowise, wondering if we could see it from our home in rural Maine. We saw that it was to be visible in the northwestern horizon after sunset yesterday. Our sources in the Internet said that the comet would not be visible without telescopes or high power field glasses. That was fine, because we had just such a pair of field glasses. We drove to a place where we could see the entire northwestern horizon and started looking for the Big Dipper whose visual presence was near the comet. We had to wait until virtually all of the light of the setting sun had disappeared and, strangely enough, a cloud appeared in that area preventing us from seeing the comet. So I drove the car a 10th of a mile south, giving us a clear view of the Big Dipper. I let my wife out so I could go and park the car while she looked. As I opened my door, she cried out, “I see it!” I looked in the direction at which she was pointing and there it was – the tail was fully visible to the naked eye, looking like a long tapered cloud. Using our field glass, we could focus on the point and there was a spot of light… the body of the comet.
The thing that struck me was the fact that I had read in good authority that the comet would not be visible to the naked eye. Wrong! To us, it was fully visible to the naked eye! “How come?” says I? Could it be because there was less fossil fuel residue in place up here in Maine between me and the comet Neowise?
I shall leave you with that observation and question, and invite you to consider what the “novel” coronavirus presence implies for our future. The comet will be visible tonight, and I would love to hear from anyone who goes looking for it with and without field glasses.
