![]() What can we do as individuals to help contain this global disaster and hopefully come out of it having learned something, come out of it a bit wiser? Some of the precautions to contain the spreading of the virus are obvious, other measures are more questionable and are object of a lively debate, as it should be. Beside the suffering and losses it is directly causing, serious consequences will derive from the oncoming economic recession/depression caused by the paralysis of entire sectors of economic activity all over the world. Whatever its origin, the little beast is now an overwhelming presence all over the globe – and we are still far from experiencing the whole range of its impact. Is there a thread joining all the pieces of the puzzle? Coincidence? Accident? Conspiracy? We may never know.īut, as I said, that is not where our energy can be most usefully invested. That's pretty much all we can say with some certainty. The new virus identified in December 2019 appears to be 96% identical to a sample the Institute's researchers had handled. ![]() In Wuhan there is an Institute of Virology conducting research, particularly on coronaviruses. The Coronavirus first appeared in Wuhan, China, three short months ago. I will just briefly recap the basic facts, which are by now well-known. It is not clear how it started, although the origin of the little beast which is the protagonist of the collective dream is rather suspicious.īut I am not going to go into that: we have a more urgent task confronting us. The nightmareĪ collective nightmare is being dreamed all over the world, it is getting hold of everybody with a kind of unquestionable impersonal authority. My wife Cruz and I decided to realise the hexagram's image by planting a vegetable garden in the house garden. The challenge of Hexagram 47 is growing through accepting confinement, accepting the limitation of one's vital space. Not to mention that one of the lines turned out to be an almost literal description of my meeting a police checkpoint the next morning:Ĭonfinement tending towards a metallic chariot. It seemed an amazingly accurate picture of what was waiting for me in Cordoba! That was exactly the situation I and millions of other people were heading towards in those days. I got Hexagram 47, Confinement, which depicts a tree within a narrow enclosure that restricts its growth. But I decided to ask the I Ching for confirmation. ![]() Nevertheless, it seemed clear to me that I had to go. Therefore on one side there was the relative freedom and safety of my mountain refuge, on the other an uncertain journey toward a more risky and more constrained situation. Furthermore, there was uncertainty about the journey being at all possible, because checkpoints were being set up along the roads. Clearly the decision would affect the next few months, since it was not likely that I would be able to return to the Sierra any time soon. ![]() The family was dealing with a painful situation in and out of the hospital, with all the attached risk of contagion. A few days ago, while highways were getting locked down in all of Spain because of the Coronavirus, I had to make a quick decision about dropping the restauration work I was involved in on a ruin in a marvelous place of the Sierra Nevada mountains and rejoining my family in Cordoba. ![]()
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