Thoughts on Medical Reform
I'm going to begin this article by saying that I am not a doctor. Everything I write here, I am stating from my perspective, relying on no source of authority other than what I have come to learn and believe to be true regarding the nature of reality. So as with all things that I write, please take what resonates and set aside the rest.
Thanks to my new friend Winter for prompting me to start thinking about this. She is, in fact, an MD, and is looking for solutions to the current state of medicine. I'm not sure how much I say will be of help to her, but I am hopeful that some of it may lead to positive change.
For purposes of this article, I'm going to ignore the affordability and accessibility issues, which I realize are huge issues. Those are problems that I don't perceive will be solved until larger shifts in society occur towards harmony and unity. In this post, I will focus on the actual provision of medical care, and how I perceive it can be improved by interested doctors, now, through greater understanding of what is actually happening when someone becomes ill or suffers trauma.
The Nature of the Current System
The current system is very good at fixing symptoms. We are reasonably good at minimizing pain chemically, surgically correcting trauma and problems within the body, and removing cancers as they arise, yet almost all of it is reactive. Even the preventative things are largely symptomatic fixes that short-circuit some chemical pathway involved in the production of illness, without curing the underlying problem.
Our medicine is largely grounded in scientific materialism, and it shows. Like any -ism, it is a belief system often clung to dogmatically by its adherents. Scientific materialism largely refuses to consider any spiritual approaches to what is occurring in the body, and even the mind is something that is given only somewhat cursory consideration, largely around the oft-scorned placebo effect. This leads to a medical establishment that is missing most of the true picture of the illness and its causes.
What Causes Illness and Trauma?
I realize this is difficult for some people to fully internalize, and others can become very triggered by this concept. From my perspective, all illness and trauma is chosen, as is everything else we experience. That doesn't mean consciously chosen! Our reality is created from the sum total of our conscious and unconscious beliefs. Some of what happens to us is incarnational, chosen by us before we are even born. Much of it is decided as a result of experiences and other choices we have made along the way. All of it arises from the conscious and unconscious stories we are telling ourselves in each moment. And once we recognize them, we can change them.
Most of us are presumably not consciously choosing to become ill or experience a traumatic event. Therefore, most illness and trauma arises from the unconscious beliefs that we hold. Here are a few of the many ways in which this can arise:
Someone whose parent had heart disease begins to worry about heart disease as they approach their parent's age when the attack happened. At a barely conscious level, they enter an obsessive-compulsive loop around death and illness, thinking about their parent's illness and how that could be them. In doing so, they are manifesting the reality they fear, leading to heart disease. That doesn't take away the relevance of the genetic predispositions for heart disease. From my frame, the physical, the mental and the spiritual are all the same thing. However, the epigenetics change (for example, the methylation of particular genes) when we change our belief patterns.
Cancer is a disease that can arise for a variety of reasons. Our society does not provide a lot of outlets for strong emotional release, since it enforces a certain normality where any powerful expression of emotions, even in the home and when alone, is considered strange and wrong. For some people, cancer creates an opportunity for a person and their loved ones to work out very energetic karmas around loss, fear of death, and potential for renewal and rebirth in an energetically powerful and socially acceptable manner. For others, they have lost all enjoyment and value fulfillment in life, and cancer is an excuse to die, in a society that largely doesn't permit euthanasia, and without the social and family stigma of suicide. For others, such as with child cancer, the child may have incarnated for the sole purpose of helping his or her family to learn the painful and powerful lessons around child loss.
Trauma can arise for an infinite number of reasons. As an example, I experienced a brown-recluse spider bite on my foot last summer, just as I was coming into the fullness of my power. I became nearly completely incapacitated, with the pain building over a period of months, as all of my body's distortions became further twisted and locked due to the damage from the bite, until I was quite literally counting the number of steps it would take me to walk anywhere, given the excruciating pain caused by each step.
For 5 months, I was never comfortable for a single minute, even when sitting or lying down. Yet when I finally let go of my reactivity and discerned into the causes of my suffering, I discovered karmas around recklessness that I had to heal, and that were forcing me to literally "go slow" until I did. Within two weeks of healing those karmas, I went from being barely able to walk to hiking several miles without pain.
If I had gone to a doctor, I would have been subjected to tests and imaging, given orthotics, and potentially put through surgery, all to fix something that began to actively heal the moment I let go of the karma that was causing it. If I hadn't learned the lesson, regardless of whether I had gone to a doctor, I would have ended up with a foot chronically in pain, keeping me permanently "slow". The orthotics wouldn't have done much; the surgery would have made things worse; all because I didn't learn the lesson it was teaching.
How to Improve the Current System
Until doctors relinquish their blind adherence to scientific materialism, the system will continue to only incrementally improve, without ever reaching for the underlying psychic reasons animating the disease. If the medical establishment were willing to open to the concept of a psychic basis for medical phenomena, then a few substantial opportunities could arise, even as we continue to work out the deeper magics allowing us to structure reality and physically heal others. Already, the state of the art from the standpoint of magic has advanced to the point where magic and an understanding of energetics can make a material difference in long-term outcomes for patients.
Within the existing system, training of practitioners in somatic noticing and vipassana techniques would allow them to begin to get a sense for the energetic sensations moving through their body, and through that, they would begin to have a portal into the psychic experiences of their patients. Further training with the Siddhi Particle (a method of energetic transmission I created) and the underlying nature of disease would open them up to psychic knowing and their intuition, broaden their heart and capacity for empathy (something that many doctors have defensively closed themselves off from due to overwhelm), allow them to begin to sense the more holistic nature of disease, and potentially identify the underlying psychic impulses that are yielding the disease or trauma outcome in the patient and heal them directly.
Healing from trauma would similarly be greatly improved through an understanding of the underlying causes of the trauma. For some, the trauma is a shock: a wake-up call to reconsider what they are doing and how they are doing it. For others, the trauma is a cry for help that is not being heard, and the recovery becomes one of wasting and poor outcome. An openness to identifying the underlying cause could open the door to therapy and emotional support targeted to the actual cause of the trauma, yielding much enhanced outcomes and much less strain on the system from people who fail to thrive.
A similar effort could be made around patient training, to help the patient understand the nature of illness and trauma, and thereby begin to recognize the underlying causes on their own. If done on a large enough scale, it becomes preventative medicine, since as people come to understand what these intense energetic experiences are and their role in creating them, they can begin to create experiences that express the underlying emotions in more wholesome and less traumatic ways, as society begins to hold space for the full range of human emotion.
Understanding the benefit of the environment on patient recovery and their mental health (and thereby their physical improvement) is also incredibly important. The energetic and aesthetic arrangement of a space really does matter. Modern hospitals and doctors' offices fail at this miserably, creating a space where the energy feels small and contracted everywhere you go. Incorporating more crystals into the spaces, even if those spaces can't be rearchitected right away, would immediately re-coordinate the energies in the space and dramatically improve the felt sense of the space for those inhabiting it.
I realize that what I am suggesting sounds daunting from the standpoint of the existing structural inertia of the system. Ultimately, as with the issues around affordability and accessibility, change at scale will not come until society as a whole begins to understand the limits of the scientific materialist framework. Even so, within small practices, in which the doctors and patients are open to a more holistic experience, there are wonderful opportunities for vastly improved patient outcomes and quality of life.
