On this pub date of our new book, we share an excerpt about the smallpox outbreak in Boston in 1721 and the inoculation campaign spearheaded by the Reverend Cotton Mather.
Vaccines: Mythology, Ideology and Reality is on my list of books to read. It is very necessary to read a number of books on a subject in order to gain knowledge. Another book, which sounded very interesting was Gavin de Becker's Forbidden Facts. I already have a number of other books in my library on the subject of vaccines, which are also enlightening. The first book I bought on the subject was back in the 1980s, Ida Honoroff's Vaccination the Silent Killer.
I bought Ty Bollinger's Monumental Myths.. and gifted it to all my friends who were readers. Once i started reading it...I couldn't stop. It had a great deal of extremely interesting info going back to the early 1900s.
We can't even get a rational or plausible explanation for how we built hundreds or more ornate architectural masterpieces in the 1800s without a power tool, never mind cranes, trucks, and roads. Including around 80, yes, 80 mansion-like insane asylums in the second half of the century, concurrent with the orphan trains operation, and the civil war. Or was it really a war on civilians?
Why would we believe the tale of the witch trials? We should be more focused on determining the fable's motive. The smart money's on to make Christians look bad.
Lice were a real scare onboard ship because of the ridiculously close quarters and demographics of most of the sailors being teen males. One day we saw one of our shipmates standing next to the stack of racks (3 racks stacked top to bottom for 3 mates to sleep; berthing compartment would have dozens stacked next to each other). Anyway, this kid from Brooklyn is slowly pulling things off his pubic hairs and examining them closely as we watch; suddenly we all realized what they were and scattered about as fast as the bugs.
Cimex lectularius. Smallpox virus was localized primarily in salivary glands and hemolymph where it was active for 12 days. Multiplication occurred in salivary glands. Infected bedbugs transmitted infection through bites and possibly through feces. Bugs were infected by feeding on infected rabbits(8)."
Just think of the bedbug infected blankets that the New World settlers gifted to the native Americans and their consequent decimation by smallpox.
Great reading, so interesting. Carl Jung saw the actions of the 'devil' as the unconscious projected externally. I'm watching The Gilded Age, the time period around the 1880's, which is only about 75 years prior to 1960. The differences in lifestyle, thinking, social expectations, upward mobility, industry, everything in fact, between those two time points is phenomenal. I expect spectacular changes in the next 70 years, to where people looking back at the '20's will find this time period just as curious, interesting, confounding and ignorant as we view those witch trials and the superstitious religious views at the time, some of which are still with us today.
One aspect seems to be absent in all references to past events in the history of medicine, as retold by both advocates or representatives of the allopathic approach and those who seek alternative routes. It is: the mind behind the actions. The ruler’s mind, to be more precise.
The ruler’s mind is the mental structure that draws energy from submitting others to the mind’s owner’s will and ideas or spreading the aura of uniqueness - bordering on the wish to be worshipped. The incidence of this mental structure among healthcare workers is striking. The number of citations, putting one’s name at the composition of (any) random team of “researchers” only to fast-track or enable their advances, the formal associations, certifications, courses, trainings, and the number of letters before or after the Me Regular Individual name. (Financial aspects are another interesting subject in this respect.) And all this is present day, 2025.
Now, imagine the year 1693. Everybody around is in the dark, almost literally. So you come up with the idea of applying dirt-packed mixtures in some weird ways on living people to supposedly “save” them. There is not a single soul in the world to challenge you. Your colleagues may openly discuss the rationale, but deep down they desire the same - inventing a measure to become the leading “doctor” among all.
The “truth” (facts, science, as we would call it today) is irrelevant. (Even in 2025…) Skillful manipulation of words will disarm potential opposition or attract those whose minds are so weak that they can only live in the shadow. Add a price tag, smear “competition” (Pasteur, Beauchamp, Koch), or invent science fiction exceeding the capacity of a regular mind (Jenner, Darwin, Mendel, Copernicus, space “travels”, Einstein, Freud, relative risk tyranny), and you have a recipe for success.
Viewing actions of the owner of this mind from this perspective may be very interesting.
Hats off to O. W. Holmes for “science is the topography of ignorance" - a quote worthy of the great Sherlock. On a more serious note, many clergymen became amateur scientists in C18, under the banner of studying God's gifts in Nature. However they were really getting on the Enlightenment bandwaggon, currying favour with a population inceasingly turning to a false god. The same thing is happening today as churches ardently embrace popular sciience fads.
Very interesting. I remember reading that Jonathan Edward's died of a small pox vaccination in 1758 along with his daughter who was Aaron Burr Sr's wife. Aaron Burr Sr, president of what is now Princeton, had died of small pox.
The US churches were given government funds to push the covid jabs... If they veered from the government narrative, they had to repay the funds. Hopefully, church leaders will be wiser the next time around and reject the bribe.
“Increase Mather wrote a pamphlet on the controversy in which he proposed that getting inoculated was a religious obligation and that Dr. Douglass would likely be pilloried in his native Scotland for defying this obligation.”
Yes, and how many prominent and also not so famous religious leaders did the very same thing to their congregations when the Covid jabs were rolled out? “It’s your religious responsibility to protect Grandma!” I was so disheartened by the mask and jab pushers in pulpits that I refused to go to church for about two years until we finally found one that welcomed the “unclean” without reservation.
Vaccines: Mythology, Ideology and Reality is on my list of books to read. It is very necessary to read a number of books on a subject in order to gain knowledge. Another book, which sounded very interesting was Gavin de Becker's Forbidden Facts. I already have a number of other books in my library on the subject of vaccines, which are also enlightening. The first book I bought on the subject was back in the 1980s, Ida Honoroff's Vaccination the Silent Killer.
Then you would like Ty Bollinger's "Monumental Myths."
I bought Ty Bollinger's Monumental Myths.. and gifted it to all my friends who were readers. Once i started reading it...I couldn't stop. It had a great deal of extremely interesting info going back to the early 1900s.
Forbidden Facts is new to me. I have recommended The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker many times and for many years.
Great book and teaches important lessons.
We can't even get a rational or plausible explanation for how we built hundreds or more ornate architectural masterpieces in the 1800s without a power tool, never mind cranes, trucks, and roads. Including around 80, yes, 80 mansion-like insane asylums in the second half of the century, concurrent with the orphan trains operation, and the civil war. Or was it really a war on civilians?
Why would we believe the tale of the witch trials? We should be more focused on determining the fable's motive. The smart money's on to make Christians look bad.
My preorder of your new book arrived today!! Can't wait to dig in. Another great book for my collection! Congrats!!
My copy arrived today too - can't wait to read it!
I received my copy today, as well
WOW
Please publish this book on Audible. Looking forward to reading or listening to it. Love the way you write, John, about this crucial topic.
This whole post is absolutely riveting.. Thank you
Congratulations!
My copy is on the way. Thanks for all you do!
Bedbugs in Relation to Transmission of Human Diseases
GEORGE J. BURTON, Ph.D.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14017240/
Lice were a real scare onboard ship because of the ridiculously close quarters and demographics of most of the sailors being teen males. One day we saw one of our shipmates standing next to the stack of racks (3 racks stacked top to bottom for 3 mates to sleep; berthing compartment would have dozens stacked next to each other). Anyway, this kid from Brooklyn is slowly pulling things off his pubic hairs and examining them closely as we watch; suddenly we all realized what they were and scattered about as fast as the bugs.
"Smallpox Smallpox virus
Cimex lectularius. Smallpox virus was localized primarily in salivary glands and hemolymph where it was active for 12 days. Multiplication occurred in salivary glands. Infected bedbugs transmitted infection through bites and possibly through feces. Bugs were infected by feeding on infected rabbits(8)."
Just think of the bedbug infected blankets that the New World settlers gifted to the native Americans and their consequent decimation by smallpox.
Indeed
Will u be putting your book on Audible. Is it your Covid book I found there…
Great reading, so interesting. Carl Jung saw the actions of the 'devil' as the unconscious projected externally. I'm watching The Gilded Age, the time period around the 1880's, which is only about 75 years prior to 1960. The differences in lifestyle, thinking, social expectations, upward mobility, industry, everything in fact, between those two time points is phenomenal. I expect spectacular changes in the next 70 years, to where people looking back at the '20's will find this time period just as curious, interesting, confounding and ignorant as we view those witch trials and the superstitious religious views at the time, some of which are still with us today.
One aspect seems to be absent in all references to past events in the history of medicine, as retold by both advocates or representatives of the allopathic approach and those who seek alternative routes. It is: the mind behind the actions. The ruler’s mind, to be more precise.
The ruler’s mind is the mental structure that draws energy from submitting others to the mind’s owner’s will and ideas or spreading the aura of uniqueness - bordering on the wish to be worshipped. The incidence of this mental structure among healthcare workers is striking. The number of citations, putting one’s name at the composition of (any) random team of “researchers” only to fast-track or enable their advances, the formal associations, certifications, courses, trainings, and the number of letters before or after the Me Regular Individual name. (Financial aspects are another interesting subject in this respect.) And all this is present day, 2025.
Now, imagine the year 1693. Everybody around is in the dark, almost literally. So you come up with the idea of applying dirt-packed mixtures in some weird ways on living people to supposedly “save” them. There is not a single soul in the world to challenge you. Your colleagues may openly discuss the rationale, but deep down they desire the same - inventing a measure to become the leading “doctor” among all.
The “truth” (facts, science, as we would call it today) is irrelevant. (Even in 2025…) Skillful manipulation of words will disarm potential opposition or attract those whose minds are so weak that they can only live in the shadow. Add a price tag, smear “competition” (Pasteur, Beauchamp, Koch), or invent science fiction exceeding the capacity of a regular mind (Jenner, Darwin, Mendel, Copernicus, space “travels”, Einstein, Freud, relative risk tyranny), and you have a recipe for success.
Viewing actions of the owner of this mind from this perspective may be very interesting.
Hats off to O. W. Holmes for “science is the topography of ignorance" - a quote worthy of the great Sherlock. On a more serious note, many clergymen became amateur scientists in C18, under the banner of studying God's gifts in Nature. However they were really getting on the Enlightenment bandwaggon, currying favour with a population inceasingly turning to a false god. The same thing is happening today as churches ardently embrace popular sciience fads.
Very interesting. I remember reading that Jonathan Edward's died of a small pox vaccination in 1758 along with his daughter who was Aaron Burr Sr's wife. Aaron Burr Sr, president of what is now Princeton, had died of small pox.
The US churches were given government funds to push the covid jabs... If they veered from the government narrative, they had to repay the funds. Hopefully, church leaders will be wiser the next time around and reject the bribe.
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“Increase Mather wrote a pamphlet on the controversy in which he proposed that getting inoculated was a religious obligation and that Dr. Douglass would likely be pilloried in his native Scotland for defying this obligation.”
Yes, and how many prominent and also not so famous religious leaders did the very same thing to their congregations when the Covid jabs were rolled out? “It’s your religious responsibility to protect Grandma!” I was so disheartened by the mask and jab pushers in pulpits that I refused to go to church for about two years until we finally found one that welcomed the “unclean” without reservation.
The churches were given government funds to push the covid jabs... If they veered from the government narrative, they had to repay the funds.