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"Meeting the Coronavirus - Psychophysical and Spiritual Preparation" by Milos Bogdanovic

The coronavirus has found people healthily, mentally and spiritually unprepared to the point that many want to solve their powerlessness to face the situation by self-suggestion that the virus does not even exist, while others react with panic and fear, lashing out at on-duty enemies and culprits who allegedly want to destroy them. Even those who reasonably intend to make an effort to keep up with the principles of healthy diet and living, and want to regenerate their immunity, do not know where to start. Their attention should be particularly directed to the fact that the structure of the coronavirus is such that it causes an inadequate immune response of the organism, which raises immunity against bacteria and not against the virus itself. Many use those herbal preparations that further activate the body’s inadequate immune response, instead of preparations that could actually help them. The whole situation causes stress, which many do not know how to maturely respond to. The mind that looks at the problem through rose-colored glasses, or is obscured by conspiracy theories, takes inadequate and even destructive actions.

This book is an attempt to address these needs by reminding the reader of the neglected principles of a healthy diet and life, with particular reference to the problem of an adequate response of the immune system to the coronavirus. And against false optimism and superstitious fears, the author presents those arguments by which, five centuries ago, Western civilization resisted the darkness of the Middle Ages, a darkness that returns to us in the decadence of the Western world and which offers the opportunity for contemporary totalitarianism to renew its former rule with the same excuses as it once did over the human conscience. Thus, with forced one-sidedness, it will conceal the newly created confusion and chaos of the people with a darkened mind.

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"Child Care of the Last Generation" by Milos Bogdanovic: Critical analysis of popular delusions of child raising with an explanation of the developmental stages of human personality

We live in a difficult time for raising of children. While many are giving up on the idea of having children, a number dare to make that decision, but perhaps precisely because they are not aware of the necessary responsibility to properly shape their children. The temptations of this time are so great that future generations must be raised in advance to become true heroes in order to overcome the impending temptations or they will fall as their safe victims if they are not trained to defeat them. Due to their mere indifference to this issue, many parents will completely unintentionally form future hedonists, incapable of responsible studying and employment, of orderly married life, perhaps alcoholics and drug addicts, and perhaps even criminals and wicked ones. But whoever truly loves their children must be aware of the temptations of this time, the external influences that go on to ruin a child, and the personal responsibility of everything a parent can do for their child to form a mature, self-aware personality, capable of caring independently for himself, to live for other people and to serve the common good and humanity.

The book "Child Care of the Last Generation" was written to encourage parents in such a noble and daring endeavor as raising a generation that may live in a time "such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be" (Matthew 24:21).

The book explains developmental stages of human personality from infancy to late years with a critique of popular modern delusions about raising children from the perspective of the epoch of the Reformation (16th - 19th centuries), supported by contemporary scientific researches.

The book reveals that the unfinished developmental stages from childhood are "waiting" whole life for a man to finally overcome them, in order to become a self-aware personality.

The book analyzes the tragic consequences of premature sexual awakening, the damaging effects of daily dopamine-inducing by video games and music abuse, analyzes the abuse of tablets to relieve a person of her responsibility in the fight against ADHD, reveals the formation of immaturity of personality in the case of gratification of psychological needs for feelings of being loved and worth, and reconsiders the idea of the absolute harm of corporal punishment.

The book exposes common temptation of the religious upbringing of children - the manipulation by guilt, vanity and sentiment, and explains how guilt forms suspicious and condemning tendencies, pride - offensive and violent personalities, and sentiment - emotionally vulnerable and unstable personalities.

Here are some thoughts from the book:

"If under the influence of proper upbringing the child does not develop the willpower to listen to the authority of parents, he will not also have the power of the will to listen to the authority of his own reason when he later acquires it."

"Unfortunately, parents often tame their children by indulging their weaknesses when they are obedient to them, and by thwarting them when they are disobedient, instead of leading them to overcome their weaknesses at the root. By proper upbringing, parents develop the will of their children, while by taming they develop not their will, but the weaknesses of the character which govern the child’s will, the weaknesses out of which such children are obedient to their parents. In this case, these are the weaknesses of selfish sentiment, guilt, and pride."

"Parents who are immature personalities can hardly rear children to become mature, because taking the responsibility on themselves is to them often so unpleasant stress that they even want to preserve their children from their personality’s maturation as some kind of a very unpleasant stress. They think that the expression of love for children is to liberate them from life responsibilities..."

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MORSE’S PERSONAL SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE

Samuel Morse in his personal life revealed a firm faith in God, to whom he prayed and whom he throughout his whole life praised for discovery of the telegraph as a gift to mankind. He relied on God in the difficult days, as well as when the blessings of his confidence in God were reaching him. Since he discovered a system for transmitting telegraphic signals over a wire, Morse was in poverty and uncertainty for 12 years, unable to implement his inventions in practice. At that time he wrote:

“The only gleam of hope, and I can not underrate it, is from confidence in God. When I look upward it calms my apprehensions for the future, and I seem to hear a voice saying: ‘If I clothe the lilies of the field, shall I not also clothe you?’ Here is my strong confidence, and I will wait patiently for the direction of Providence.”

One evening, he was waiting for the US Congress to consider his appeal to fund the test of the telegraph by building a 61-km telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C. When from the gallery he heard the mocking of his project, he returned home, and ready for disappointment, he lay down and fell asleep.

Next morning he was visited by Annie G. Ellsworth, the daughter of Commissioner of Patents, with the news that Congress passed his bill in midnight hours and that President Tyler had signed the telegraph into law.

Morse was appropriated $30,000 from the US government ($1,043,294 today) for his project, and a year later, on 24th of May, the first telegraphic link between the two cities was realized.

A month later, when the press had already written extensively about that achievement, Samuel Morse injured his leg and therefore spent a few weeks in bed. Spiritual meaning of his accident he explained in a letter to his brother Sidney on June 23, 1844:

“I cannot but constantly exclaim, ‘What hath God wrought!’ When I look back upon the darkness of last winter and reflect how, at one time everything seemed hopeless; when I remember that all my associates in the enterprise of the Telegraph had either deserted me or were discouraged, and one had even turned my enemy, reviler and accuser (and even Mr. Vail, who has held fast to me from the beginning, felt like giving up just in the deepest darkness of all); when I remember that, giving up all hope myself from any other source than his right arm which brings salvation, his salvation did come in answer to prayer, faith is strengthened, and did I not know by too sad experience the deceitfulness of the heart, I should say that it was impossible for me again to distrust or feel anxiety, undue anxiety, for the future. But He who knows the heart knows its disease, and, as the Good Physician, if we give ourselves unreservedly into his hands to be cured, He will give that medicine which his perfect knowledge of our case prescribes.