https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Plague
1982
Before that, The Andromeda Strain
What killed the aliens in The Day the Earth Stood Still?
Smallpox blankets
Catapulting dead bodies over city walls. Poisoning wells.
Only the methods have changed.
Here come the anit-semite charges.
https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/article/simon-trent-print
Note the final conclusion.
I heard two professors in a conversation. One was complaining about not having a paper accepted. The second told him it wasn't the conclusion that 'they were looking for'. His response was 'Well it they'd just told me what to write, I'd have written that.'
Welcome to Chat University.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoul
as per 'ghola'
and thereby associated with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gula_(goddess)
Historic examples:
The descriptions have many facets/angles as well as left and right-brained explanations/examples.
All mythology contains symbology of the conscious and subconscious 'nous'.
I guess you could say it's as a deep a pool as one is able to or willing to swim, and the benefit depends on the diver expertise and expectations and the treasure sought.
If you want a left-hemispheric western breakdown showing the logos in it's proper relation to the concept of Harmony.
Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung goes deep into this territory of 'reality as reflection of social consciousness.
Mythos defines logos in a similar manner.
String Theory is an attempt to convolute individual viewpoints (I am a unicorn if I believe I'm a unicorn (lower magic) as equal realities, when they are not. Chaos would (is) the result as planned.
Your take is very astute and is supported by literature in more than one tradition.
H.R.3605 - 105th Congress (1997-1998): Patients' Bill of Rights.
Before this even passed I took the newpaper headline around and showed it to everyone, saying "You just lost your ability to make decisions in your health care."
This is a slippery slope that is currently being manipulated.
I 'believe' I'm a female with a penis. I 'believe' I'm a doge.
I 'believe' that the earth is flat and dream of it every night.
I can dream, can't I?
There are NO simultaneously occurring multiple realities, there are many points of light within ONE reality. This is a ploy contained within modern String Theory to create said multiple universes/realities to divide and confuse.
The meme calling illegal immigrants 'Dreamers' is a part of this manipulation.
ENVISIONING is one thing............. DREAMING another.
A negative experience in a dream is a nightmare.
Dream vs reality becomes a battlefield when the dreamer loses the narrative and chases rainbows he calls 'dreams'.
In times such as these so called 'end-times', it is said your young men will have visions and dream dreams. Differentiating.
Most typically, dreams are psychic manifestations of fears and desires in story form. That is to be analyzed and learned from, not followed like a command. The subconscious is trying to communicate something that the conscious self has ignored or sublimated.
An idea can 'come in a dream', but it still takes envisioning it and then ACTION to prove it's worth.
A high jumper envisions himself going over the bar or it won't happen. A dream about it won't make it happen, and neither will envisioning it until the action occurs. See Schrodinger's cat experiment.
One is reactive and the other proactive.
To DO is to Be. To those who 'believe' they live in their own personal reality, I say Dream On.
This difference needs shown or we're in for more craziness in the name of personal realities.