The вЂњmentalвЂќ coronavirus spread earlier, faster and much more powerfully than its biological counterpart. How has the specter of Covid-19 been able to haunt 7.5 billion people and bring the world to a standstill in no time at all? Because the narrative massively resonates with something latent that is both teeming and deeply suppressed in peopleвЂ™s subconscious. Might we be experiencing something similar right now? Renggli shows that regions in which mothers continued to practice close physical contact with their children were spared from the plague.

Children growing up in the 13 th and 14 th centuries thus suffered a collective trauma of primal abandonment. In the century preceding the Black Death, he argues, the Catholic Church began advising mothers to separate from their babies during day and night.

This model is valid for any epidemic and can serve as a key for a new understanding of history. The people become vulnerable to illnesses and finally to death. If this crisis lasts too long, is too severe or too traumatic, the immune system of the population is slowly weakened and finally collapses. My psycho- or rather socio-somatic model is psycho-neuro-immunology: neither a bacterium nor a virus is the core problem, but rather the people within a society who have been shaken by a crisis. In his provocative book, SelbstzerstГ¶rung aus Verlassenheit, the psychotherapist Franz Renggli ascribes the outbreak of the Great Plague in Christian Europe in the 14 th century, which killed 30%вЂ“60% of the continentвЂ™s popul ation, to an вЂњeruption of mass psychosis.вЂќ He writes, What is true for an individual disease may also be true for epidemic or pandemic outbreaks. If we exclusively fight the symptoms without exploring the deeper root, we might survive the disease but other symptoms are still likely to materialize. In this way, we can say the healing antidote вЂ“ or, in this case, the anti-virus вЂ“ lies hidden within the disease as the treasure of transformative realization. Such insights have the possibility to make us more whole and may, in fact, change our lives. Healing often occurs in the moment we realize what we have suppressed. For example, conflicts, longings, and vital drives our minds suppress may resurface in bodily symptoms. Through spiritual experiences and studies, IвЂ™ve learned that diseases rarely appear for no reason. Just as the characters and events in dreams arenвЂ™t separate from the dreamer, the world, according to the great psychoanalyst Carl Jung, is but a living symbol, the embodiment of deeper parts of ourselves, which we collectively dream into existence.Д®mbracing reality in this way, how would we make sense of Covid-19? Quantum physics invites us into a view of reality in which the seeming вЂњobjectiveвЂќ reality out there and the вЂњsubjectiveвЂќ experience вЂњin hereвЂќ become inseparably intertwined. Our perception of the world isnвЂ™t just passive, it is creative вЂ“ it literally in-forms its very being and reality. They do not simply exist вЂњas such,вЂќ as fixed and finished entities they can appear as a wave in one instant or as a particle in another, depending on whether or not they are observed. Subatomic entities, such as electrons, they saw, behave in awe-striking and magical ways. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.вЂќДЇor over a hundred years, physicists and philosophers have tried to wrap their heads around the manifold wonders of quantum physics. If that were true, how might we engage and respond? Covid-19 could actually present an unlikely possibility for collective awakening and far-reaching system change. Coming from a spiritually-informed holistic worldview, I entertain the possibility that we as humanity вЂ“ or some deeper part of ourselves, whether conscious or not вЂ“ have dreamed this moment into existence as a catalyst for our collective evolution.

In this essay, I will not suggest or discuss вЂњwhat is going on.вЂќ I rather want to invite you into a realm transcending the dichotomy of вЂњobjective realityвЂќ vs вЂњsubjective thoughts/feelings,вЂќ which underlies most theories, predictions and calls to action in this crisis. I do know this is a crucial moment of choice for humanity. My suspicious mind wandered around restlessly, examining all theories and possible explanations, yet I must admit: I donвЂ™t know what is happening. IвЂ™ve struggled to make sense of what is going on. Featured image | Mandala in Rinchepung Dzong, Paro, Bhutan

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