Integral Awareness

Okay - next step: giving up the next level of delusion. Maybe even cutting through delusion altogether - who knows, it's a possibility.
This is where covid becomes a gateway; once we start to look at covid as a symptom instead of a disease. A symptom of the larger affliction of having pretty much disconnected from reality; where we believe we can shape nature to what we want it to be and fix any unwanted results - creating the next level of problems (which will of course at the same time be another opportunity to cut through delusion/change our ways).
What keeps us from actually seeing this and acting on what we can now recognize as insanity? It's always the same aswer: FEAR. It's what keeps us stuck, and has been keeping us stuck ever since we gained self-awareness. The total irony is that the most fearful are those who need the illusion of control the most - and they create the institutions that control the masses: religion, scientism (I group at least 95% of todays "scientists" here - Faucci, Tam, The Experts), political ideologies (Trump as much as Trudeau as much as Merkel as much as Macron as much as ....). And much closer to home: a family member or a trusted friend who all of a sudden turns on you because of fear (I've had a friend become extremely hostile because he is so fearful that his past lifestyle of smoking way too much dope leaves him vulnerable and completely in the grip of fear).
The thing to remember is that blame never works; the only meaningful thing you can do is change your own perspective and then let go. The outcome isn't up to you, ever! This is where you cut through delusion altogether...Good luck and have fun!

Covid-19; a wake up call? If you're willing to look at a challenge and see the opportunity hiding in plain sight, then yes - you better believe it!
Where to begin this waking up process? Right here, right now - all those who want to wake up can do so by looking inside themselves.
This pandemic has made it abundantly clear that there is one overriding factor to everything we do: FEAR. We're being manipulated and we're manipulating others through fear; everyone is convinced their belief system is correct and blame is being put on "the other".
Look inside yourself, study your belief systems, question where their validity would come from if they weren't being fed by fear. Not just your belief system around covid, but every belief system you have.
The opportunity, the first step to waking up, is to take a mental step back, to recognize first of all the fear that lives in you and to acknowledge that your identity, your ego, is formed around that fear.
The second step is to realize just how much of your time and energy goes into convincing others that you really are the person(a) you want them to see - and this goes down through all the layers of identity - and how you don't really believe in that persona yourself, deep down.
The third step is to realize you are - obviously - insane...just like pretty much everybody else.
Once you're there, and it's a very big ask for most people to go there, you can initiate change; now, you can start doing what you know is right in that moment, without needing a certain outcome to validate you through the eyes of others. Complicated? Actually, no - it takes all the complications away, it's the simplest thing ever. It's also the hardest thing ever, since it goes against everything we've ever done and it requires a willingness to question your complete sense of self.
That's the opportunity hiding in any challenge - maybe the collective magnitude of the covid challenge can be your stepping off moment.

Depression...many people suffer from it, many more won't qualify it as such while suffering from it. Therapy and antidepressants are the two "cures".

What about a totally different take on depression, one that sets all belief systems about depression on fire?

Sounds intriguing, doesn't it? Try to wrap your brain around this: what if depression is simply a necessary step out of what we call "normality" but what really is delusion?

If you're on a path to increased awareness and you've become increasingly aware that pretty much all of your belief systems, emotions and thoughts are false, the overriding emotion is despair - and then we can choose from there: therapy and antidepressants, running away from our demons into victimhood or different, more palatable identities or we can decide to step off the cliff into the unknown and face our demons. Small wonder that therapy and antidepressants are as popular as they are. Unfortunately, that path only leads to the next opportunity to get the same choice again, and again, and again...
The only way to ever be free is to go through door number two.

Enjoy the ride...