The COVID-19 pandemic, which struck the world starting in 2019, presents itself to contemporary consciousness as a historical-scale enigma. For the gaze that seeks the spiritual causes of earthly events, it is not an isolated biological accident, but the acute symptom of a crisis in human evolution whose roots stretch back centuries. Practical and theoretical materialism, which has progressively denied the reality of the spirit and reduced man to a physico-chemical complex, created the inner ground for such an ordeal to manifest. The disease, in its planetary spread, acted as a powerful revealer: it showed the vulnerability of a humanity that has forgotten its spiritual origin and destination. The fear of contagion and death, amplified by often chaotic information, further contracted consciousness onto a purely material plane, while the necessary distancing measures irreversibly accelerated the migration of social life into the digital sphere. This dual pressure – on one hand the threat to physical health, on the other the screen-mediated relational isolation – constitutes a frontal assault on man's essential nature: his I. The I, the immortal core of individuality, develops precisely through the free and responsible encounter with other I's, through the sharing of destinies and empathetic participation in the joy and sorrow of others. Deprived of this nourishment, man risks atrophying into a functional being, connected yet alone, efficient yet devoid of inner warmth. The pandemic, in this light, is not merely a calamity to be overcome with material means, but a call to awakening. It forces the question: what does it truly mean to be human? The answer cannot come from natural science alone, but must emerge from a renewed capacity for spiritual perception. The collective karma of humanity expresses itself in this trial, inviting an awareness of the forces at play. Forces that push towards the crystallisation of life into mechanical schemas, and forces that, conversely, offer the possibility of inner liberation. To overcome the enigma of the pandemic means, therefore, to recognise in it the face of an evolutionary necessity: the opportunity to move from a materialistic consciousness to a consciousness capable of integrating the world of spirit into the understanding of reality, in order to build a future sociality that is truly fraternal because founded on the free collaboration of awakened I's.
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