{"id":6349,"date":"2020-12-18T02:37:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T02:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordmagicglobal.com\/?p=6349"},"modified":"2020-12-18T02:37:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T02:37:47","slug":"infodemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordmagicglobal.com\/infodemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Infodemic:"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cNoun: a massive amount of widely and rapidly circulating information about a particular crisis or controversial issue, consisting of a confusing combination of fact, falsehood, rumor, and opinion.<\/em>\u201d 12.8.20 Word-of-the-Day, Dictionary.com*<\/a>\u00b7<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you think fear isn\u2019t<\/em> being pumped-out and spread by every form of media there is, check out the paranoid auto-correct on Instagram.<\/p>\n

I must have reversed several letters when beginning to type the word \u2018surprising\u2019 in response to a comment I received. For instantly, the spellcheck function offered me this horrific alternative \u2013\u2013 \u2018superinfection.<\/strong>\u2019<\/p>\n

Is that even a word? — I wondered in shock. This happened late at night so I thought I must be dreaming. And just now, while writing this blog, I found that the spellchecker on my Word program doesn\u2019t recognize superinfection <\/em>as a legitimate word.<\/p>\n

So, I did a Google search and learned that it was coined about 100 years ago. And it\u2019s defined as an \u201cinfection occurring after or on top of an earlier infection, especially following treatment with broad-spectrum antibiotics.\u201d (Doesn\u2019t that strengthen your faith in modern medicine)?<\/p>\n

What this odd event underscores for me is just how much the Life Stream is a Life\u2019s Dream in which we are the programmable dreamers who conjure together a collective Nightmare through our conscious and unconscious adherence to a lot of really terrible ideas. We then empower this toxic brew of destructive nonsense through the negative emotions it engenders within us.<\/p>\n

BTW: speaking of nightmares \u2013\u2013 why is it a NightMare<\/em><\/strong> that carries people away toward fear and horror in our dreaming? After all, it\u2019s primarily masculine energy that\u2019s responsible for the greed, aggression and terror in the world. I wonder, as well, how \u00a0terror and horror have become such reliably profitable subjects of entertainment.<\/p>\n

This world truly is suicidally insane. And while the word insane<\/em> is generally defined as being \u2018out of our mind,\u2019 it actually occurs when we are out of our body and deaf to the promptings of our HEARt. Then we are left with no COMPASSion whatever by which to guide our way through the untamed wilderness of an untethered mind.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, there is a deeper Well of Peace and sanity that reside within us all. And when the mind goes quiet, we naturally HEAR the HEARt speak in the beautiful poetry of our own innate and spontaneous wisdom. For<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve a cellular line to the Divine but ego causes static.<\/p>\n

As we each let go and enjoy the flow<\/p>\n

our lives become X-Static.<\/p>\n

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*<\/a> \u201cThe word was coined in 2003 by David J. Rothkopf, an American political scientist and journalist. Prof. Rothkopf was referring specifically to the profusion of information, misinformation, rumor, and outright falsehoods during the SARS epidemic of 2003.\u201d<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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