Is being sick spiritual?

I was sick for about one week with the peek on day two and three. With some people I chat almost daily or they chat with me. The first day the infect hit me I told a few people that I am sick and will be sick.
Believe it or not two of them seemed surprised the next day when I told them I am still sick. Of course I know there are drugs which suppress the symptoms, but aside from that I think if we are sick, there is a reason for it.
I once had a friend who constantly was on the move and even complained not to have time to sit down and think things over. When she was sick she took some drugs and went to work anyway. Then one day she had a fairly serious car accident and broke both legs. Now she had time.

You know the flu short for  influenza a serious viral infection and other viral infections spread by droplet infection. Sometimes we get it even if no infected person is close to us and sometimes we are in a room full of sneezing and coughing people or we even kiss our sick spouse but seem to be immune.
So there seems to be an effect aside from the epidemiological aspects.
I like to think and call it the spiritual side of live. The things running in the background in our life, the things we are commonly not aware of.
If I get sick, I know it is time to rest. It may be a time to pause and it might be a time to re-think what I am doing.
As I told  currently my life goes through changes and I am not very happy with them. But aging is something we may be able to delay a little but not for good. This and my other situation gave me quite a stress, especially since my plans seemed not to take effect or work. Maybe this already weakened my defense system. Then we had a cold spell here in the Philippines, actually the longest and coldest since I am here. In short I got sick.
I was laying in bed for almost 2 days and had at least 2 more day I spend in front of the Computer but not doing any serious work or learning.
And then the next morning I got up and felt happy and confident!
It felt good!
But nothing in the outer had changed and nothing in the inner had happened.
Stop!
That cannot be true!
Nothing I can remember or recall or put my finger on had happened!

Next time you feel you are about to get sick maybe you ask yourself if you need to suppress it or if you can afford to let it happen, maybe there is a gift in it for you!

Another false master or False Masters II

I started to write and the thoughts flew and I wrote enough to make it a book - probably an eBook again.

Where does this lead too?

It is a fascinating theme and to write what is in my mind and already came out is about the quantity I would need to fill a weekly block for half a year. And I am sure if this is a burning issue now, it no longer will be in 5 month or so.
I let my thought flow and in the end I found words on my paper (computer screen) which bring me into the corner of the heretics or also in the corners of the false masters.
It is tempting!
But as I wrote in my last post, I personally find it more interesting to explore the unknown than to train sheep to fly. Kindly do not feel insulted. I tend to think that a false master of course is a "master" or not, but for sure he is unwanted by the established path. These authorities may claim the "new false faster" leads people into the wrong direction.
But is this the fault of the false master? If the leaders would give people a compass and a map and teach them to read the map and use the compass, the people would know if the false master leads them astray! Don’t you agree?
I know it is a controversial subject.  I am aware that some of the false masters do it for egoistic reasons. They want to feel the power of being famous, of having followers, some even do it for getting easy lays, but I am talking about the honest ones.
In our times, we tend to call it the information age, but we also could call it the legal or advocate time, even an honest person can get into problems if he trusts a handshake honestly given. Hence each path needs to act legally correct, to protect its "intellectual rights".
Of course things get complicated when you legally can claim a word like "apple" or a color like yellow for yellow pages or magenta for T-Online in Germany.
But aside from this, I understand that any established path is afraid to lose followers, because this means losing influence and money.
This of course means that most path' are managed and not lead by a spiritual leader. This is sad in a way, but also understandable. In the world today we specialize and Jesus only had 12 followers and in a way problems to keep them in line. I do not say being the administrator of a (big) group is not a spiritual task, but I think the spiritual experience of this administrator might not be the  spiritual stories it followers need to hear.
So any spiritual master is a thread to the establishment of this path. The Catholic Church was smart! They declared them as Saints. And not to put them into a different class of  demi gods they also labeled some respected administrators as saints too.