Like most Daily Sceptic readers I’m just an ordinary citizen outraged at the gratuitous suffering and absurdities of the last three years. We are all accidental activists. Yet it just so happens that for 12 years I worked with a plethora of Government departments including the Department of Health, the Cabinet Office, the Home Office and the Department of Education (under its ever-changing names) and many others. I also have a PhD in philosophy and for 30 years I have been a psychotherapist, working with hypnosis and collaborating with Paul McKenna on a series of best-selling books. I found that I was uniquely well placed to comment on the Covid imbroglio.
I started a blog and in May 2020 the Lockdown Sceptics website, as it was then, picked up on my piece about how Covid catastrophists were behaving like members of the cult researched by social psychologist Leon Festinger in When Prophecy Fails. The more evidence accrued that they were wrong, the more fervently they asserted they were right. Later I offered an alternative to the cock-up versus conspiracy dichotomy, and several of my other posts have been flagged up in the News Round-Up section.
In the last year or so I have not blogged so much because I have been writing a book, The Bug in our Thinking, which addresses a critical question: how do so many decent, sensible people become entrapped in delusions?
The book is built on sound philosophy but it is far from an academic text. Led by stories, it explores the practice of hypnosis, the nature of our being, and the winding path towards clearer perception. The deep patterns that facilitated recent events long pre-date them and we face even bigger problems than the over-reactions to Covid, hideous and deadly though they are. The same technology that liberated us from grinding poverty has rendered us profoundly vulnerable to delusion and our efforts to educate our way out of ignorance often increase our vulnerability.
Readers sceptical of mainstream narratives will find the book gratifying and it will equip them to bypass the frustrating arguments that we have been having since March 2020. However, beyond ratifying the sceptical point of view, it has another, greater, purpose.
It is written to be welcoming to those mainstreamers identified by Mattias Desmet who have fallen into mass formation and been captured by orthodoxy. There is not one mention of Covid, nor vaccines, in the whole book. It is neither polemic nor confrontational, rather it is a gentle invitation to all comers to a more thoughtful understanding.
You can pre-order The Bug in our Thinking now via my website and this is way I prefer to sell it.
For those outside the U.K., or who prefer an ebook, it is available on Amazon on its many global sites and there will soon be an audiobook version as well, again via Audible and Amazon.
However absolutely the best way to get a copy of the book will be to come to the book launch on May 24th in London. It will be an opportunity for our community, born online, to meet face to face. There will be others there who may not be sceptical – but that is the point. We need to understand each other more, and those with a reasonably open mind will find in my book the means to do so. If you would like to be put on the guest list for the launch please email me here by May 20th.
It will be a great pleasure to see you there.
The Bug in our Thinking by Hugh Willbourn – Book Launch
Wednesday May 24th, 5.30pm to 7.30pm
Old Diorama Arts Centre, London, NW1 3FE
The building is less than five minutes walk from Warren Street Tube station. Here are the directions and access details.
You will be able to purchase a (signed!) copy of the book for £13.50 and save the cost of postage. Please bring cash.
What sort of a book is it? What a very good question. Here is an early, unedited review:
John Heron meets Roger Zelazny in this rollercoaster ride through some of the multi-layered intricacies of human consciousness and how we make sense of things. Written for grownups – such an immense relief to be spared the smug condescension to be commonly found in such writings. Willbourn is determined to meet us on his level, and if we’re not there already we find ourselves picked up by the scruff and ceremoniously brought along. Quite exhilarating. And very, very funny in many parts. I don’t agree with everything he says, but I loved reading it anyway. This is a robust, challenging, absorbing, lively and illuminating read. And utterly human and personal. Almost impossible to put down.
Catherine Llewellyn, YesYouNow.today
I had to google John Heron and Roger Zelazny, but having done so I am flattered to be put in their company. I hope to meet you on May 24th.
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Intriguing.! I shall order one this weekend..
It might have something to do with the levers of power being in the control of people who will profit from making people believe scary stuff.
If you look at the etymology of the word it suggests a move downwards or a turning. Especially a twisted turning. The prevalance of crisis cults at the end of civlisatons is nothing new. The present becomes unbearable and hope of redemptive change seems absurd so the only possible escape from torment is a spiralling down. Even if you claim to oppose the spiralling down it is this force that is keeping you magnetised. Whether it is Covid or clmate change or anything else these things are merely ciphers for a force that will continue to manifest.The understanding of these forces can be their undoing and even given the gravity of the times there can be no delay and yet no impatience.
Get yourself a Bible, read it. Start with Luke’s Gospel, then Acts.
WHat would it actually mean to make a true effort to keep our civilisation alive. How much dross has accumulated so that we struggle to see the fundaments despite them being dear to us. It is almost silly and twee to even mention them. Do you really believe that such a civilisation can just keep carrying on. We are dealing with immense spiritual forces and battles that play out on a geopolitical level. The movement eastwards of the centre of power has been talked about by the mystery schools for a long time. Of course you can’t give a blood transfusion to a corpse but if you have the English language you have a resource far greater than some foreign foe. It is all in there, the beautiful and the sublime as well as the treachery and deceit. This great demoralisation that has afflicted our people needs to looked at
If you’re doing your best to liven things up then you have nothing to worry about. If you are wallowing in misery or propagating a Jeremiad spirit then you are no good to the future. Because not too long from now it will become that stark. Yes we know about the decline but many of us are willing to build something up out of the ashes.
The perpetrators will get eaten by their own delusions
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In terms of a concrete plan of action I would recommend a visit to Northern Ireland. It is sparsely populated and the fly fishing is really good and there are so many hidden treaures. There is this strange pink light that you get around Carlingford Lough that I have never seen elsewhere it is utterly beguiling. That peninsula is such a magical place and there are so many of those. Just a few days in The Mountain of Mourne or exploring the North Antrim coast.
It is more beautiful than it has ever been if you only care to recognise it. The lifting of the veil. Can you imagine what it would’ve been like if society at large had just kept carrying on with the same old crap forever. That would’ve been hell. This is the time of the open window.I don’t need to mention faith because faith isn’t some form of belief it is an attitude of spirit.
Ron DeSantis
The world is not deepening into any catastrophe, only the man made one’s!
This is a well thought out and interesting read, but personally I think that CJ Hopkins has the scenario of the past 3 years, and the past decade, nailed with his ‘Covidian Cult’ blog from his Consent Factory.
It’s one of the best chapters of his ‘The Rise of the New Normal Reich’, my favourite book commenting on our current predicament.
More deaths from blood clots than usual. No mention of possible cause. This’ll be the tip of the iceberg.
”Thrombosis UK has warned that deaths involving blood clots are higher than expected as it called for more transparency over the work hospitals are doing to reduce the risk for patients.
Data from the NHS show that 14,846 people aged 19 or over died in England from a VTE in 2021/22.
In 2019/20 this figure stood at 12,457.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/nhs-england-covid-data-family-b2337399.html
Hospitals have been injecting people with blood thinners, so I would suggest another cause for increased deaths from blood clots.
This is a very well put together 6min video; the changing coverage of the Covid jabs. When you see it like this it’s just extraordinary and really highlights just how seriously people have been played.
https://twitter.com/TheMilkBarTV/status/1656664869360500739
Thank you sounds interesting. I have ordered 2. One is for my brother whose birthday is on 15th June he’s half awake unfortunately having been jabbed. Hopefully this will “get him over the line”?!
Sorry won’t be able to make 24th promised some friends I’d go to the Cambridge beer festival. Couldn’t change the venue could you?
“I also have a PhD in philosophy ”
Ooh look at you! A PhD in smoke and mirrors!
I’ve got a city and guilds in carpentry and joinery so I’ll be far more use than you’ll ever be, theologian!
It is often comforting for people to accept the group think orthodoxy. People don’t want to be seen as eccentric, or controversial. They want to be popular and not laughed at. A good example I can give is when I told friends and family that Polar Bear numbers are increasing and have been for 60 years. They become like a rabbit in the headlights. They stare at me like I am from Mars. When they hear that storms floods and droughts are not increasing in frequency or intensity it only confirms that indeed I must be from the Red Planet.————— Such is the power of propaganda that it turns known facts into conspiracy theories.
The one thing that has perplexed me is that Psychologists don’t seem to have understood that there is an alternative explanation for what has occurred and that is that this was a spontaneous collective hysteria over an imaginary illness.
It’s not new, we had the best example in the Medieval Witch trials and Hans Christian Anderson wrote the best known book on Covid 19, ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’.
The closest was Mattias Desmet but he believed (wrongly) that this was an orchestrated outbreak and that the virus exists.
The outbreak began in the medical profession, who were the worst affected and spread to the politicians, media and the general public.
All the deaths have rational explanations.
If you ventilate a person with an imaginary illness, you’re going to kill them.
If you shut down the hospitals and lockdown the people over an imaginary illness, you’re going to kill lots of people.
If you inject people with an experimental vaccine over an imaginary illness, you’re going to kill lots of people.
The theory that the PCR can detect illness can be demolished by only having to discover one black swan event and that occurred in 2006 at the dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Centre Whooping Cough outbreak where the PCR was shown to be 0% accurate at detecting a bacteria, let alone a virus.
The Mass Hysteria outbreak over an imaginary virus is the one theory that explains EVERYTHING.
Do you think this about only Covid or do you believe viruses don’t exist, period?
I now think that virus theory is deeply flawed and it’s entirely possible that no viruses exist.