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So, I want to try and keep to my promise of writing with more spiritually self-examining fingerprints. But, a dichotomy exists. I’m also eager to observe and scribble down thoughts on the political and current affairs scene, at home and abroad. These two impulses are challenging to negotiate with within myself but the recent death of Micheal O’Regan, the former Irish Times journalist and vaccine advocate, might well allow me to entertain both paths together. Now, O’Regan was a vaccination fanatic, particularly in the heat of late 2021, and in even more recent times a fanatic of some other curious state-sponsored ideologies. Most of this fanaticism manifest on-line via his Twitter feed. I am not relating this information to pass judgement but rather to inform those of you who may not be familiar with his name.
The single salient fact is that Michael O’Regan is dead. Family and some friends probably loved him dearly and will miss him. So, I want to be mindful of that too. Now, I’m sure there are a multitude of possible reasons for why he suddenly died. A hushed few will mumble under their breath about vaccine-side effects. But that ain’t the road I want to travel this evening.
Instead, I’m going to look at his passing from a wider camera lens and frame it in terms of the spiritual war we all say is at play in Ireland, but a war very few spend significant time exploring in detail. So, this is a theoretical approach with that end in mind, hopefully.
The words “spiritual war “ have become a modern meme of sorts, or a badge of honour, but casual games with those particular words, I feel, should not be engaged with or entertained lightly. For, with the sudden demise of O’Regan, there’s a cautionary lesson to be learned for all of us, I believe. “ There but for the grace of god, go I…”, as it were. So, I am going to observe O’Regan’s physical death first as a spiritual slow death. Or perhaps a better term is spiritual or energetic invasion. And see where looking at his recent life from that perspective might lead us.
Regular readers will be aware that I view the last six months of 2021 as probably the darkest period of Irish history in my life-time. Spiritually speaking, especially. In a sense, demons were activated and released within many ordinary and some not -so -ordinary people in our nation. Often, unknowingly. And that is the kicker when attempting to talk about matters of the spirit in this way, I feel. When a person’s bad angel suddenly wrests control of the ship he or she is often the last to understand they’ve set course for an ice-berg. Until it hits. That, was and is, certainly the case with my own interactions with my own demons, anyway. Now, those last sentences might seem kinda outlandish to read but let’s look at the subject matter less “religousey” and in less triggering language.
Let’s consider that a tidal wave of negative energy hit the shores of Ireland in 2021 and swamped much of the remaining rock of natural, positive energy. Let’s consider further, that previously non-descript, ordinary, and unsuspecting people developed a taste for that dark energy. Largely unbeknownst to themselves but not always, it must be said. But many, in fact, probably considered themselves a force for the opposite of what actually suddenly possessed them.
Now, let’s not fool ourselves, many knew full well what they were inviting in, and the devil they were dancing with on the dance-floor. Many turned handsome profit. But, for today, let our better angels prevail and consider only the cohort who were probably unaware of the transformation occurring. So, thinking in those terms, decide for yourselves where Michael O’Regan may have fit in such a picture. With my better angel guiding the ship I am gonna assume he didn’t recognise his own emerging energetic transformation. At any rate, I could literally pull up hundreds of Michael O’Regan tweets from this shadowy period, and later too, but will focus on just a single tweet. His zero tolerance tweet from October 2021.
Now, ask yourself a question. And answer it as honestly as you can.
How does reading his words make you feel at nearly two and a half years remove?
Still triggering?
Or have you managed to detach from the cold chill of his bonkers logic?
I suppose, the point I am attempting to make is perhaps a surprising one. One way of observing O’Regan’s social media output over the past number of years is to say he became suddenly addicted to negative energy. Further still, he became addicted to creating negative energy. Now, I could be very wrong, but I detected that he derived a certain pleasure from his more controversial tweets. He seemed to feed off the people he outraged and not the people who agreed with his various stances. A self-harming enterprise, if true.
Unfortunately, the internalising of this type of energy for any length of time is very dangerous and damaging, I suspect. To mind, body and soul. Indeed, I would argue there is a heavy price to be paid for slow waltzing with this type of devil energy. It invades you, then consumes you, then hollows you out, before finally flinging your empty carcass aside and moving on quickly to a new unsuspecting dance partner.
Now, to my mind at least, compressed dense negativity cares not a jot about the thought processes that produce the negativity. That is to say, it is insignificant as to whether you are right or wrong on a particular subject line or argument. The energy only cares about being produced and re-produced. So, whether it be vaccines, vaccine passports, constitutional amendments, hate speech legislation or the many other divisive topics of the day - if the effect of your interactions on your specific specialist subject produces large quantities of internalised negativity in you and others - you might be on the winning side of the political debate but on the wrong side of the spiritual war. Worth considering, perhaps.
Now, if you observe closely above , at O’Regan’s tweet, you might notice that his opinion on vaccination generated 322 responses. Many of them, the words of people who ferociously disagreed with his sentiments. People like me, in other words. It seems to me that O’Regan’s response to the criticisms was not to ignore it or even to engage with some of the more cogent arguments but rather to generate follow-up tweets, responses and content guaranteed to trigger more negativity and negative emotions. An almost subliminal pleasure in goading those who disagreed with him. If this is true you might argue it is a form of abuse. An almost intellectualisation of a type of digital abuse. The lesson for all of us is that the digital arena is a magnet for creating negativity or drawing out negative emotions. A tool to be used wisely and judiciously.
Now time for a couple last question as we explore the theory?
Who ultimately paid the biggest price for the generation of so much negativity, looking at the picture this way?
And where does it leave him as he moves into the other-world?
Therein lies the lesson, I suppose. Whether you be triumphantly vaccinated or triumphantly unvaccinated. I hope, where-ever he is now he gets the opportunity to amend for his sins. As I hope I get the opportunity to amend for mine.
May he rest in peace.
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Food for thought. I know some who were true believers and paid the ultimate price.... 💔
gerry,i would'nt be too hard on this man,as it appears he was convinced that this hoax criminal so-called virus was real,as it seems he himself took the vile syringe, he was'nt spreading false narratives as was the likes of luke o'neill, varadkar,mehole,mc.donald,houlahan,donnelly rte, media and others.