Dementia's #DarkMatter and My Alternative COVID-19 Causation Hypothesis
#HeartfeltThanks to @bbcradio4, neurologist @Jules_Montague, co-host William Miller, couple Geraint and Jacqui and everyone else responsible for this episode of the 5-part series "Dementia: Unexpected Stories Of the Mind", which is about "atypical" symptoms of dementia that are now emerging from the darkness of excessively academic, media-politically muzzled medicine into the light of real life.
The series not only supports the unwritten New Covenant (uNC) based, male-female interdependence focused, psycho-biological hypothesis at the heart of my alternative COVID-19 causation hypothesis, it intersects with my more than FOUR decades old, home and community based interaction with neurological #DarkMatter in ways that are exquisitely intriguing.
Basically, my evolving #COVID19 causation hypothesis is simply building on a secular-and-religious-world-views bridging approach to research that I first hinted at in my November, 1982 poem "Communion", where I describe the experience of the Spirit of the LIVING GOD communing with my spirit, as "intercourse/ with the nucleus of/reality".
I had embarked on an evangelical fundamentalist Christian journey and joined a well known Barbadian Pentecostal church in June that year, as I explain in my book The Bible: Beauty and Terror Reconciled, and through "Communion" I seek to convey my sense of what the apostle Paul apparently has in mind in Romans 8:16, where he writes "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God", according to the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible.
Forty years later, I have a much deeper appreciation of how my relationship with my earthly, biological parents and other Barbadian authority figures predisposed me toward the "daft", dark matter matter - of Pentecostalism.
A father myself now, to an 18 year-old daughter and 14 year-old son, I see more clearly than ever the difficulty and importance of co-creating a male-female balance and interdependence focused language with their mother: a glossolalia or "speaking in tongues" proximate, new language of love and trust that is unique to our familial nucleus.
So I could not agree more with Montague, when she tells her co-host Miller,
"In medical school, when we learnt about dementia we mainly learned about memory loss. But that changed over my 15 years as a doctor. But to be frank about this William, I've understood more about dementia I feel from visiting our interviewees in this series than from whole swathes of my medical career."
It is through my interactions and observations as a domestic carer, in both formal and informal, unpaid roles that I acquired the practical and theoretical building blocks that allowed me to construct my male-female interdependence focused #COVID19 causation hypothesis in December 2020.
This home-based, cognition-affection constructing material includes experiences dating back at least to my mid 1980s familial care for my nephew Jamal and my voluntary, church-based visits with the late Sanderson Calixte, an elderly fellow member with me of Peoples Cathedral, in Barbados, and various paid and unpaid roles I have held with Norwich Justice and Peace, Surlingham Community Primary School, Domino's Pizza, Better Healthcare Services Limited, Norwich City College, the National Union of Journalists and other entities, since moving to England in 2006.
Of these paid and unpaid roles, that of being a husband and father and as a Health Care Assistant (HCA) stand out most prominently as "laboratories" in which I was able to immerse myself, consciously or unconsciously, in the age old, perennial balance\battle of the sexes, as explicit references and allusions to these "gender gyrations" (Lewd Logic, 2000) in my literary and wider creative output from 1982 to the present suggest.
The heterosexual feminist focus of my #COVID19 hypothesis on the woman, in the Jewish prophet Jeremiah's cryptic question and declaration "How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man," (Jeremiah 31:22) is predicted by my work with the former UNIFEM, now UN Women to stem violence against women.
It is presaged by my selection of at least two Women's Studies courses, as I pursued my Linguistics degree at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Cave Hill campus, in Barbados.
It can be "tracked and traced" to my eclectic literary tribute to my mother's and other women's shaping of my sensitivities in the e-book Woman-I-Zen (2012), in my March 2005 Fundamentalist Feminism essay, warning of the dangers of an evangelical, fundamentalist Christian approximating variant of feminism and in other cutting edge writings.
I also reinforced the existential, human ecology focused understanding of male-female "compassing", immersion and interdependence in my Careful Conversation With Selma James project, where I subtly foreground a link between human nature and all nature.
This treatment of gender balance as a meteorological phenomenon, or, more explicitly, a sexual "climax crisis" that is not only comparable with but intimately linked to the "climate crisis" is taken up in my #COVID19 hypothesis, where I link media political generated "information inflammation" to the destruction of the earth's ozone layer.
Dementia can thus be viewed as a more fixed, intransigent form of 'brain fog'. It can be located on a continuum of clouded judgement or perception, consistent with my #COVID19 causation hypothesis which suggests that the viral virility of the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen is interdependent with gender confusion among humans.
I propose,
"...given COVID-19's well documented impact on the mind, inducing delirium, feelings of exhaustion and other psychosomatic manifestations, called "malaise" by a British Medical Journal (BMJ) article cited here extensively, might it be worth considering the possibility that SARS-CoV-2's virility and reproductive efficacy is interdependent with a radical (albeit gradual, possibly), change in human bio-psychology?
"In other words, might some seismic alteration in human bio-psychology and psychosocial relations have occurred that predisposes human beings to infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, of which the delusions and other neurological or bio-psychological disease insults are "atypical" symptoms?
"Might the much noted penetrative, or bindingย powerย of the protein spikes on the envelope which surrounds the virus' core gene๎c material be a consequence of or a complement to a catastrophic, or at least perilous bio-psychological permeability that has opened up in the individual consciences and/or collective unconscious of human beings, much like the hole in the earth's ozone layer?
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