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Book SynopsisA collection of new perspectives on COVID-19 from authoritative voices outside the mainstream• Includes contributions from 35 well-known authors, doctors, herbalists, First Nations teachers, economists, astrologers, and others, such as Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Annabel Lee, Matthew Wood, Gabriel Cousens, M.D., Rob Brezsny, and Robert Simmons
• All royalties for this book go to the Land Peace foundation, serving First Nations tribes in Maine
The pandemic of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the biggest event of our lifetimes. This global experience has affected human history, ecology, epidemiology, and supply chains with the suddenness of 9/11, yet with a far greater extent, duration, and toll--the end of which is not yet in sight.
Exploring a broad spectrum of new perspectives on COVID-19, from the physical to the metaphysical, from ecological to political, from apocalyptic to proto-utopian, and from scientific facts and health tips to imaginings, visionings, poems, and awakenings, this anthology offers an antidote to the barrage of data and speculation from the mainstream. The 35 contributors, including Laura Aversano, Charles Eisenstein, Zoe Brezsny, Meryl Nass, M.D., Bobby Byrd, and Joel and Michelle Levey, address the virus as a fellow being, allowing it to speak to us and through us. They attempt to describe, understand, interpret, and decipher the virus at biological, serological, epidemiological, social, political, astrological, and ontological levels.
The virus is explored in terms of cultural critique, divination, prophecy, warning, elucidation, and opportunity. Medical doctors, herbalists, naturopaths, indigenous healers, and homeopathic physicians tell us about coronavirus history, treatments, and prevention protocols; yoga teachers about cultivating inner balance and harmony; and economists, poets, psychotherapists, and First Nations teachers about the vast effects of the virus and the way forward. They explore how the disease speaks directly and how it meticulously addresses our relationship to Gaia, to its animal, plant, and mineral kingdoms, to each other, and to the economies and dystopia we have created.
As a visionary whole,
The Corona Transmissions asks you to respond, to engage your wisdom and creative imagination, to resist easy categorization and resolutions, and to participate in a collective dance and chant for healing, peace, equality, and a habitable future. Viruses do not live except by virtue of us carrying them. We are the living ones and our bodies, minds, hearts, and spirits will prevail.
Trade Review"Finally! What a breath of fresh air! Rather than focus on the virus, virus, virus of this pandemic, and rather than increasing the volume on fear-mongering, this remarkable anthology focuses more on the other side of the infectious disease equation: what can we do to strengthen our body's immune and defense system so that we will be more likely to fight off infection or at least sharply reduce its complications? And what is the meaning of this pandemic for this day and age? Are there silver linings, or perhaps rainbow linings, to this pandemic? Maybe our civilization needed some slowing down. Maybe American exceptionalism needed to be questioned. Maybe human evolution needed to learn how to incorporate new viruses into our biome to make it yet stronger and more adaptable to its environment. In any case, this diverse collection of writers, poets, philosophers, physicians, scientists, psychologists, herbalists, homeopaths, and healers bring light to the shadow of this pandemic." * Dana Ullman, MPH, CCH, author of The Homeopathic Revolution *
“The voices in
The Corona Transmissions instilled a greater sense of meaning to the events that we’re living through, helping me to shift from a personal view to a transpersonal view that encompasses a greater range of possibilities. Reading the writer’s words made me feel reconnected to humanity, assured that we’re all in this together and there’s space for the perspective of everyone. In fact, it’s vital that we come together and share our thoughts, feelings, and experiences, and this book is a magnificent start to the dismantling, processing, re-envisioning needed to prevail.” * Alanna Kali, Musing Mystical *
"We are all desperate for guidance when there seems to be so little sage advice. These are alternative views on the subject, but they are not crazed or conspiracy-led and are all backed up by decades of learning and experience." * Adam Gordon, Kindred Spirit Magazine *
"This stimulating book consists of alternatives for engaging with Covid-19, ‘from physical to metaphysical.’ There are 35 contributions consisting of stories, poetry, inspirations, medical information and healing modalities, and interdisciplinary analyses where the standout essays are by Richard Grossinger and Charles Eisenstein. Richard weaves together multiple and conflicting narratives and his message is to seek common ground on the basis that the virus has brought to light many long incubating crises as well as the limits and hazards of dominant scientific and medical approaches." * David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer *
Table of ContentsCreating New Realities
Richard Grossinger
OVERVIEWS AND TRANSMISSIONS
Two Poems
Kristin Flyntz
One Morning During the Pandemic
Bobby Byrd
Sunday Morning Sequestered in America
Annabel Lee
Love in the Time of Corona
Laura Aversano
What Pluto Is Trying to Tell Us
Ellias Lonsdale
What the Cell Teaches Us in Time of Plague
Fr. Francis Tiso
The Coronation
Charles Eisenstein
An Appropriate Response: Reconnecting the Dots
Gary Gach
Exposed
Sherri Mitchell, Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset
Make the Blend, Not War
Richard Strozzi-Heckler
MEDICAL INFORMATION AND HEALING MODALITIES
Medical Information and Healing Modalities
Meryl Nass
CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19): Herbal and Holistic Perspectives Matthew Wood
SARS-CoV-2 Protection Protocol: Building the Terrain
Gabriel Cousens
COVID-19 Protocol
Jus Crea Giammarino
Homeopathy, Vital Force, and Corona
Vatsala Sperling
The Intimacy of Strangers
Barbara Karlsen
Corona Yoga: Staying Sane in Crazy Times
Joel and Michelle Levey
Attaining Our Birthright
Steve Curtin
DECONSTRUCTIONS, DIVINATIONS, AND VISIONSTITANIC NATION, COVID WAKE
Eric Myers
Against an Endemic Response
Robert Podgurski
Make This Time Count
Kristina Joy Gutiérrez
Body Heat
Lindy Hough
Prayers for Corona
Vicki Robin
The Center of the World Is Changing Location
Rob Brezsny
Portal Poems
Zoe Brezsny
At the Edge of the Great Swamp: Seven Poems of Redemption Midst the Virus
Paul Weiss
A Dozen Poems in the Time of Covid
James Moore
Queen of Wands, King of Swords
Salicrow
Working with Stones during Crisis for Awakening and Transformation Robert Simmons
A Message from the Coronavirus
Jeff Vander Clute
A Quartet of COVID Posies, Spring 2020
Stephanie Lahar
Two Poems
Jack Foley Covida--My New Companion: A Disease of Ruthless Truth Philippa Rees
*TODAY IS THE DAY*
Emily Shurr
Moving Forward . . . How Do We Get Out of This One?
Richard Grossinger
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