Welcome Back to The Synergetic Health Newsletter!

March 13th, 2025. Greetings from Da Nang, Vietnam! I’ve returned back to the beach city in central Vietnam, where life is good! I have just under one month left on my visa here before packing up and moving on. Cambodia? Laos? Somewhere else? We shall see!

In today’s newsletter I riff on the idea of the Big One (who you really are, your true nature) vs. the Little One (Joe, the ego, the character, the persona), introduce you to a doctor questioning the validity of virology, share some hits from Yung Pueblo, and finish with the usual research and tidbits.

🎭 Beyond the Character

There’s a fundamental truth about human existence that often goes unnoticed: we are not who we think we are, or rather, not only who we think we are.

Imagine life as a movie playing out on the screen of consciousness. This isn’t to say life is literally a film, but the analogy reveals something essential about our true nature.

In every moment, our experience has two aspects. There’s the character, in my case “Joe,” moving through life, riding its ups and downs, tasting success and failure, joy and sorrow. This is the self most people fully identify with, feeling every triumph and setback as if it defines their entire being.

Yet there’s another dimension to us, constant, unchanging, and ever-present: pure awareness itself. This is our true nature, the real “you” that simply observes all experience. Like the screen on which a movie plays, it remains untouched by the drama flickering across it.

When we over-identify with our character, our ego self, we suffer needlessly. Every plot twist becomes a personal crisis, every challenge a threat to our whole identity. But when we recognize our fundamental nature as awareness, we find true freedom. We can watch our character navigate life’s journey while knowing we are, at our core, the unchanging consciousness in which all experience unfolds.

From this perspective, we can let our character be guided by something greater than the ego’s narrow lens. Call it God, Source, or Higher Self; the label matters less than the recognition of a deeper intelligence at work. Surrendering to this guidance, rather than letting the ego steer, allows life to flow with natural grace and ease.

Engaging with life from this place, we participate fully yet stay free from the grip of personal drama. Our character still acts, still lives vividly, but without the illusion that fleeting experiences define us.

This understanding offers a constant refuge. No matter the movie of your life, whether your character faces triumph or tragedy, you can rest in the knowledge that your essential nature remains untouched, unchanging, and at peace.

This shift in perspective changes everything. Knowing yourself as awareness, not just the character you play, frees you from the need to control every detail. You can open to life’s natural unfolding, trusting in that greater intelligence.

Suffering often stems from this misidentification, from believing we are only the temporary, shifting character rather than the eternal awareness in which it appears. Stepping back into our true nature brings a peace that doesn’t hinge on external conditions.

Living from this place doesn’t mean your character stops feeling the full spectrum of human emotions and experiences. But it does mean you’re no longer wholly defined by them. Life moves through you without the burden of trying to control it all.

This is the freedom of recognizing your true nature: the ability to engage fully with life while resting in the unchanging awareness that you fundamentally are.

🦠 The Virus Question: Challenging Virology

When Dr. Mark Bailey left his medical practice in 2016 after two decades in the field, he had growing concerns about mainstream medicine but hadn't yet questioned the fundamental existence of viruses. That changed dramatically in early 2020, as he watched the world respond to what was called the COVID-19 pandemic.

As Bailey describes it, his journey began when his wife Dr. Sam Bailey, then a medical TV presenter in New Zealand, started receiving questions about the emerging situation in Wuhan. Their initial skepticism about the severity of the response led them to examine the underlying scientific evidence for SARS-CoV-2. What they found – or rather, what they say they didn't find – shocked them.

Bailey argues that the entire field of virology rests on what he considers a fundamental misunderstanding. According to him, viruses were never actually discovered but rather imagined into existence in the late 1800s when scientists couldn't find bacteria associated with certain diseases. Unable to see anything under their microscopes, they hypothesized the existence of particles too small to observe - what we now call viruses.

This historical context is essential to Bailey's argument. He contends that when you trace modern virology back to its origins, examining the original German papers of pioneers like Robert Koch, the evidence for germ theory itself becomes questionable. While Koch's postulates provided a logical framework for proving disease causation, Bailey maintains these criteria were never actually satisfied - not in the 1880s, and not today.

One of Bailey's claims concerns virus isolation. He argues that despite common belief, no one has ever properly isolated a virus or demonstrated viral replication in the way most people imagine it happens. What virologists call "isolation," he says, involves adding unpurified samples containing numerous substances to cell cultures, then attributing any resulting cell death to the presumed presence of a virus - without proper controls or direct evidence of viral particles.

Even the genetic sequences attributed to viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, come under Bailey's scrutiny. He describes following the citation trail backward through scientific literature, ultimately reaching papers from the 1980s that he says failed to prove these sequences came from viruses rather than the cells themselves or other sources in the complex mixtures being studied.

The implications of Bailey's perspective are….. far-reaching. If he's correct that viruses haven't been proven to exist as infectious particles, it would call into question not just the response to COVID-19 but much of modern medical practice. He argues that clusters of illness typically attributed to viral transmission could be better explained by shared environmental exposures, psychological factors, or other common influences.

I’ve speculated in a past newsletter about the causes of illness outside of human to human transmission.

Bailey's work with his wife Dr. Sam has faced significant censorship. Other people who speak up about this issue face similar obstacles.

The pharmaceutical and medical industries represent over 10% of global GDP, suggesting that questioning fundamental theories underlying these industries may face resistance regardless of their scientific merit. Yet this pattern of suppressing discussion prompts the question: if germ theory and viral contagion are solidly rooted in scientific proof, why is there such apparent urgency to silence dissent under the familiar refrain of "protecting public safety"?

Dr. Bailey's critique isn't casual skepticism but rather the result of years of research and collaboration with others around the world who have similarly questioned virology's scientific foundations. Count me among the others.

For those interested in exploring these ideas further, Bailey's technical papers and videos are available at DrSamBailey.com, where he and his wife continue to share their research and analysis of what they see as major problems with the current medical paradigm.

🧘 Yung Pueblo

Diego Perez, who writes under the pen name Yung Pueblo, is a poet and philosopher who has written several books on the “power of self-healing, creating healthy relationships, and the wisdom that comes when we truly work on knowing ourselves.”

Here a few gems of his that I would like to share:

if you spend too long not letting yourself be creative you can literally start feeling sick you were born to create, let it flow, do not overthink it

i feel victorious and free every moment i do not measure my personal value by the things i do or own

a hero is one who heals their own wounds and then shows others how to do the same

the inward movement can be summarized as follows: we observe ourselves, we accept what we find without judgment, we let it go, and the actual release causes our transformation

i gathered my habits and started releasing the ones that can never lead me to lasting freedom and joy

stress and anxiety are the children of attachment; they are both forms of craving that take us away from the present and into areas of imagination that steal away our peace.

how to improve your life: 1. make self-love a top priority 2. learn a self-healing technique 3. create space for daily healing 4. know that everything changes 5. be kind, loving, and honest to all

sometimes people are simply meant to teach you how not to act in the future

𝕏 Thread of the Week

🗿 Mayan Traditional Healing: I recently finished the book Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer, which documents the success of Don Elijio Panti, a Maya healer in Belize who treated patients for over 40 years using a combination of medicinal plants and spiritual healing methods. Through his apprentice Rosita Arvigo's observations, we learn how Panti used local plants like linden flowers for sleep and corn silk for urinary problems, while also using traditional prayers, massage, and an understanding of the spiritual aspects of illness. His success in treating ailments that often stumped modern medicine demonstrates the longstanding value of traditional Maya healing practices that consider both the physical and spiritual needs of patients, unlike modern medicine’s mainly pharmaceutical based approach.

💉 Covid Vaccine Injury Exists: A Yale study confirms COVID vaccines cause long-term harm, with spike protein lingering up to 709 days, triggering immune suppression, autoimmunity, and chronic illnesses. The author commenting on this study blames rushed production, pointing to inconsistent manufacturing and contaminants that led to varying toxicity across batches. The study validates "Post-Vaccination Syndrome," marked by lasting fatigue, pain, and reactivated viruses like EBV and herpes. Initially supportive of vaccines, the Yale team’s shift highlights the findings’ weight.

🙏 Prayer Works: The meta-analysis "Religiosity/Spirituality and Physiological Markers of Health" by Shattuck and Muehlenbein highlights the positive effects of prayer on various health outcomes. The study found that prayer is associated with lower blood pressure, improved cardiovascular health, and reduced inflammation, as evidenced by decreased levels of C-reactive protein and interleukin-6. Additionally, the emotional comfort derived from prayer may offer protective benefits for individuals and their loved ones.

🔗 One Hitters

👤 Soul Mirrors: Shadow work through self analysis (Article)

🍎 How to best remove pesticides from your produce (Video)

🧠 50% of dementia and late-onset Alzheimer’s cases are preventable (Video)

💉 Link between vaccines, 5G, and insurance (Opinion)

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