At this writing 4/10/20 there are over a million and a half worldwide cases of Corona virus worldwide. In the US there are half a million. Deaths worldwide there are over ninety five thousand with fourteen thousand plus dead in the USA alone. Not to put too fine a point on our pencil markings herein we might say we are failing miserably in the fight to overcome the spread of the virus. We started too late and our response has been far too limited. Our white house has dropped the ball. They’ve been slow and ineffective in response to what is a world changing pandemic. A world punishing disease. .We have good friends in the medical profession in Australia and maybe we, our government, could and should learn something from them. Australians now have a travel ban from city to country and visa-versa. People must have written permissions of necessity or job clearances to travel distances. Especially across state, & province lines & boundaries. The police will stop cars and turn them around without proper clearance to travel the highways. They are confined to home and no gatherings of more than two people are advised or allowed. Widespread business closings are enforced and open and honest communication is constantly evolving. There is information and advice to inform people about exactly what they can and cannot do. Businesses deemed to be essential will be open, social distancing enforced. Our friends G&G tell us that now eight to ten feet are recommended separation distances, especially when people are active. Let’s make that the new Focus Up Philosophers standard to be safe. Supermarkets, banks, pharmacies, c-stores, freight, food delivery and bottle shops are open. Police patrol stations, of course, are open. Pubs, clubs, cinemas, casinos, nightclubs, places of worship, gyms, sport activities were closed or shut down by order of the PM, Scott Morrison. Hairdressers are okay if social distancing is enforced and restaurants are recommended to do takeaway cooking. We hear now that masks can be worn every four days. Covid-19 does not seem to be viable over four days. Also airing them outside and putting them in the sun would be good. I am thinking of a hanging rack by the front door to hang them outside in the sun. Have you all got masks? Daughter Sharon is making them in case any are needed. Email me and I’ll send your requests to her. focusupphilosophers@gmail.com When I first started wearing my mask a month or more ago, people gave me very different looks. Some were even angry. Now in the grocery store today 4/11 about half the people had them on. Hearing from our Australian friends that in Sydney the government has taken over several hotels and any Australian citizen who has traveled out of the country and coming back to Australia is sequestered there for fourteen days prior to returning to his or her home. Good idea? Very good idea, when we hear that most of the cases in New York are from a European derivative of the virus. How refreshing it would be to have open and honest communication from our White House leaders other than Dr. Fauci. My neighbor wants to run him for presidential candidate against Mr.Trump. When I went to Pepperdine College one of my professors told us we did not have communication if it wasn’t open and honest communication. What have we got now? Entertainment, sales pitches, condemnation and mis-education from the White House and friends. When we hear that medical professionals are stealing all the medical needs and supplies it makes us sad to hear figures about medical professionals who have died while on the job or immediately after treating patients with Covid-19. Columbia university in Manhattan (NYC) has asked for volunteers because half of their staff has contracted Coronavirus. At a New York City hospital more than two hundred workers had been sick with the virus. The 30,000 people in New York with the disease are putting more than a strain on hospital front line, ER, ICU-Intensive Care Units, and other staff. Doctors and nurses are getting sick and dying in hospitals around the US and the world. I heard an Italian doctor report that twenty of his staff of nurses and doctors had died. We hear there is a shortage of masks, I forgot mine and the hospital my wife had been taken to by ambulance would not give me one. We are running without a proper number of ventilators, and other health related garments and equipment. I was not old enough to remember WW 11. (world war two), yet I have read and seen the effort we put forth to save the world for democracy. When this many people in America are threatened why not turn out all of our resources to fight this disease for our democracy? Have we saved it in one generation, which Tom Brokaw called ‘The Greatest Generation’ in his book and now we are losing it in this one? This pandemic is real, at least it seems real to me, how about you? Can we not influence our government leaders, especially the white house to take up the fight rather than trying to sell us on the prospective of their doing such a good job? We are supposed to be a world leader and here we are falling so far behind that we have a majority of the Covid-19 cases in the world. Does that sound right? I had a thought Yesterday amidst a headache that almost stopped me from doing what I wanted to do. Let’s suspend mortgage payments for at least two months and up to as long as this pandemic is threatening Americans. We bailed out the banks. It was the hard working Americans who suffered when the banks did not take care of business properly. They sold mortgages, and other instruments that the people at the top knew were unsustainable. I have a friend in Virginia whose BofA contact quit because he said management was doing things not according to Hoyle or other good business practices. My friend didn’t sell his BofA stock and he told me how much he lost in the downturn. You wouldn’t want to consider your loss against his. I would not. It was substantial to say the very least. Carole and I lost a great deal and it has taken to this year to recoup it. Then the banks got money to bail themselves out of trouble. Does that sound fair or did you not get hurt in the crash? We need the banks to support Americans. Let us see how much they’re willing to help and bail us out. The country’s mortgages can be suspended. If mortgages are forgiven until the crisis is abated, then rents should also be forgiven. I know people who pay from one thousand to five grand a month rent. Will a stimulus check of $1,200 help them that much? I also feel for the small businesses who have mortgages and small churches who can not have services because of Covid-19. These churches depend on contributions to keep the doors open. Could the larger, may I say richer churches assist them to survive? We know that some of them can. Will they? Le’ts see, no let’s recommend it. I think the world is better if many of the better church philosophies survive. That is the clear thinking, fully revealed, free and unobstructed religious philosophies and spiritually sound philosophies. The ones that give the congregation the power to think about their spiritual education and highest and best lives in the best light possible. Every person in the world should be taught to emulate the masters. The teaching of Jesus, Buddha, Babaji, Gandhi, Yogananda, Kahunas and the Bodhisattva. Plus there are so many more spiritual masters and great thinkers there can be road maps for each individual. Emulate the masters. Do what the masters do and be, do and have the right thoughts and things. Do what that inner wise knower directs. Meditate, meditate, meditate, to the meditator the universe is available. Tune in to spirit whenever we can. The soul knows and creates the past, present and future for each of us. When we know the soul desires and wants which are above the body/brain needs, we can and will think and act with the highest of integrity and honesty. Religion can teach that each human being is capable of the greatest good known. Will we do it exactly like Jesus, or Saint Frances of Assisi, or Gautama Buddha, or Parmahansa Yogananda, or Mahavatar Babaji or other saints and greats of our past and present? Probably not! Can we each do good things? We absolutely can. Leave no stone un-turned until you find your path to the good, true and lovable. Think about becoming, no become a Christ, Buddha, Kahuna, Mahavatar, Saint, in your own time. Focus Up Philosophers are now entreated to look for the good and become the good you perceive and believe. Turn your believing to knowing. This is Easter and I trust each of us will celebrate in our own way. I am stepping out on a far limb to ask you at this trying time to step out even further than me. Because I know how much further than you I need to go so that I may rise above basically being simply Ernest. This is a trying time and we will be a different world when, as we suspect, a vaccination against the Coronavirus is available in approximately eighteen months. Microbiologists seem to agree that twelve months would be great and they hope no longer than eighteen months. We will work with each of our Focus Up Philosophers to assist you into a new reality of mastery. Let’s all become masters of our destinies living as the soul, spirit, love. You can do it. I trust we can all do it. Then teach others how to follow in our footsteps. As the doctors say about patient operations: ‘See one, do one, teach one.’ Build a strong and reachable happy place in the upper middle of your brain. One inch above and between the tops of your ears. See last weeks post if you want more info about this. Go there when you are making decisions. Prior to all decisions, focus up and become insightful before making all decisions. Do it whenever you want to be, do and create better decisions. Better decisions will improve your life in many ways. First of all, do not make money your deity. I mean the best of human endeavors want for making better decisions. Write until you have mastered that medium. Do you like poetry, mysteries, drama, screen plays the choice is yours. Mastery is available and much easier and more fun and interesting if it is in a subject we love. Speak in public until you have mastered that medium. Practice on your family now that we are forced inside. Record your talks, today’s cell phones can do it. Critique your presentation(s), it will be good in helping you to learn how to do it. Understand that negativity only begets negativity in return. Honest critiques look at all sides of the presentation without malice to allow the recipient to grow. Read good books. Try Shakespeare, Emerson, the synoptic gospels and John in the new testament of the Bible. Also read Eastern literature Mohandes Gandhi, the Mahatma, 100 Quotes and others; Parmahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi and the Second Coming of Christ; Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind; Plato, The Republic and be sure to explore his questioning modus operandi; Will and Ariel Durant, especially The Lessons of History, that book is wonderful; Socrates; Aristotle; American poets like, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, T.S. Elliot, E.E.Cummings, Edgar Allen Poe, and the like. I received a communique from the library that in essence said that the facility was closed but books could be available on demand. My wife, Carole recommends Carl Sagan, and Ann Druyen, husband and wife team. Try Woolly by Ben Mezrich. He tells me that the politicians fear and dislike scientists and we must change that. Possibly a goal for Focus Up Philosophers to tackle, yes? Change our lives, change the world around us. Become the change we want to see in the world. Be the person we want to see more of. Those are some of my thoughts. I think the governments have failed us in this very serious dis-ease or ill-mess. I also judge governments and others in this time of crisis and think that there are many failures. Know that when the government fails the people that…… You finish the thought please and pick your countries. 1. A 2. B 3. C – you choose and let us know. focusupphilosophers@gmail.com Please, please do not give in to fear. Be the strength people need to heal and get well. Be the one all can look to that has good ideas and good thoughts. Share the best of yourself to the world. We must and we will limit and eliminate this challenge and I trust we can see it sometime as our opportunity. The opportunity is to win WW III without firing a shot at any sentient being on the planet. The shots will be into the future and allowing us to create our own new world. A world different from the one we see today. Let us trust that all the world’s people will learn to pull together, work together and become one humanity. One people of, by and for human beings, for nature and the planet. One people only against that which harms us and for all of the good, true and lovable. There is a lot of good here and we can all be part of it. Blessings, Ernest
Post Script, PS. In this trying time we can and will build a better reality for ourselves and the world. Let this message reverberate from the mountains to the seashores. Entreat every Christian to be their own Christ. Every Buddhist to be their own Buddha. Every Huna to become a Kahuna. Interesting story about the Kahunas. They trained the Hunas. After the training they gave them an ounce of poison to drink. Those who lived were graduated. Those that did not were washed out of the program. Actually they were healed and sent home. Every Avatar in training to elevate themselves to Mahavatar in stature. I read that the movie Avatar will have a second coming. Avatar 2 will be out soon. Maybe Focus Up Philosophers can write Avatar 3 the Mahavatar-(Great Avatar) The remaining personages, that is every human being left to become a Saint. It seems to me when I go to our Catholic Church in Salt Lake City there are paintings where all the people have halos. I look for halo’s on the people in the church every time. Even the robed clergy up front don’t have halos I can see. There must be many halos available for us, reckon maybe? Last but not least are those that are on the top of the mountain with the masters and all humanity. We know we will all make it at the end of the planet Earth experience and experiment. They will turn out the lights when we translate out to the next higher dimension(For which there are no words in this dimension to adequately describe). They are the Bodhisattva. I trust all Focus Up Philosophers are at that time Bodhisattvas’.