Jon Samson

Florida has just dropped all vaccine mandates across the board, and so the obvious narrative from those apposed is that this will put people in danger because vaccines save lives and not getting them will lead to pandemics and certain death. On the other side of the equation, we’ve got people (like myself) who can’t help but think: “how can you accuse people of being negligent for not trusting institutions who have been found guilty of negligence in a court of law? I myself think of everything in life as a vaccine. Anything we’re exposed to or experience is a shot of the unknown, and how we adapt in body and mind is not just contingent on whether we have taken a serum mixed with stabilizers and preservatives we can’t pronounce but somehow are supposed to trust because experts know better, to trust science, but not the original debate driven science — the religious version where one is cast out for seeing through a different lens. While most people know the placebo effect —if you believe something will work it has a better outcome — it’s lesser known counterpart, the Nocebo effect, clinically proves that when someone doesn’t feel safe or positive about ingesting something, there is larger risk of injury. No matter what side a person is on, the one thing we all have in common is the need to feel safe. In my work as a music therapist as well as in my own personal healing, it all comes to breathing patterns. If we are constantly terrified other people are going to kill us indirectly because of their own fears about the same issue but from the opposite viewpoint — we hold our breath in blame and anger — and that is just no way to live. Ultimately, we must find a way to cultivate a functional level of TRUST and ACCOUNTABILITY in order to feel safe. Institutions must own up to the fact that history doesn’t lie, and that the lack of trust and safety was well earned, therefore mandates are no longer a viable mechanism — unless liability is clearly established. It’s tormentingly scary, spirit crushing and heart shattering to not feel safe or agree with government, mainstream medical institutions, and especially, to think differently than the people in our families and circles of friends —about what should be a matter of informed consent, personal choice and neurobiological diversity. I share all this in the spirit of critical thinking, Poppet.

Here is a song I made— to teach metaphysics and help heal the COllective diVIDE: youtu.be/KCxq0a4gGfs

My album Ageless has been nominated for a Grammy- but more importantly, I’ve also been nominated for the “Least Active On Twitter” Award😂

How do maintain our childlike spirit in our troubled world? Wrote a song about it, like to hear? youtu.be/Olfg3c-KfFQ

Earth needs a vacation