Tonight I walked a path around my neighborhood I almost never take and was reminded of some of the more unusual career paths some people take. I’ve wondered often, for example, how many calls Fitzwater Investigations of the paranormal fields per month (year? day?) and what their contents may be.

Particularly as both so-called paranormal and conspiratorial thinking has seemed to take hold in recent years, I feel a responsibility to voice a concern that much of this phenomena may relate to a communications infrastructure that too often prevents people from accessing accurate and helpful information.

I’ve found it enlightening in recent years to consider the distinct differences between the concepts of content and form in Course in Miracles – the former relating to a deep, but sometimes wordless, knowing, and the latter relating more to what is observed. As it’s obvious both political parties seem to have fallen into conspiracy theory territory (focusing on the Jewish or Russia or supposed voter fraud or whatever the QAnon group says), this doesn’t mean underlying concerns are unfounded. Many times, it seems people accurately sense that they are not being afforded complete or accurate information and then inaccurately guess about what the truth may be. (I am not a Trump voter, but, for example, many people’s feelings that the charges being leveled against him, while valid, certainly, in form – and this absolutely matters – may be too one-sided in terms of content.)

It’s further been interesting to me lately to consider the concept of projection because, normally, the person doing the projecting is doing so unknowingly. Sometimes it seems to me that the Trump camp and the so-called corporate media military industrial complex both believe they are right and that it is the other who tried to reverse the results of an election and that it is the other who, by trying to do something about it, attempted to defraud the American people. This is one reason I continue to believe there could be value in having a journalism sector rather than only an opinion sector in the U.S.

How much good, I wonder, could talking more openly about the merger of the stock market and journalism sectors do for so many people’s well being today, helping eliminate time needlessly spent suspiciously wondering about what it is that seems to be driving everyone apart and focusing, instead, on learning, problem-solving and reconciliation?