The reductionistic, allopathic model of medicine is deeply flawed and based on outdated assumptions. And it has turned modern health care into an establishment that all too often endangers the very patients it’s supposed to help.
Medicine should be devoted to caring for people. It should be about a human-to-human connection in the process of healing. While some noble practitioners embody these ideals, the overall system has become a “medical-industrial complex”: an intricate web of financial interests involving pharmaceutical companies, doctors, nurses, medical device/equipment suppliers, diagnostics companies, hospitals, medical schools, insurance companies, media companies, politicians, technology companies, scientific journals, and others.1
Those who pull the strings of this web have managed to control society’s belief systems about health and disease; and about germs, infections, contagion, and vaccines. Modern medicine’s core beliefs are often blindly accepted—and even defended—when there is great reason to challenge them. And yet they persist.
The medical-industrial complex not only steers society’s belief systems but also the practice of medicine itself. Making money often takes precedence over healing, while a deeper spiritual orientation is lacking.
From a financial perspective, healing a person means losing a customer. Having people stay on long-term pharmaceutical medications is a much better outcome than identifying and solving the underlying problem that’s causing symptoms. Thus, for the pharmaceutical industry, it makes sense to fund research on drugs and vaccines rather than uncovering how to empower people to stay healthy on their own. Certainly, the medical system has saved people from life-threatening conditions, but at the same time, it hasn’t focused as much on how it could have prevented those people from becoming deathly ill in the first place. Overall, a chronically sick society is a better economic outcome for the medical-industrial complex than a healthy society is. This dangerous mentality can persist if participants within “the system” act from a physicalist perspective that has lost sight of the greater “cosmic system” that connects us all. As such, a consciousness shift is essential.
In the absence of this shift, hospitals have become factory-like; and doctors and nurses, often unknowingly, have transformed into cogs in a wheel. Perhaps they enter the system with good intentions and genuinely want to help people. But indoctrination takes hold quickly, and the prospect of going against the grain is harrowing and outright intimidating. Speaking out carries great risk, so it’s easier to just play it safe, not make a fuss, and unquestioningly follow the protocols. Patients who have experienced this dynamic can attest without hesitation: compassion in the mainstream medical system is sometimes conspicuously absent. In part, this might be due to a flawed philosophical outlook, but it’s also a symptom of an unhealthy society. Given how many sick people are flooding the system, it’s often a practical challenge for health-care providers to treat each patient with appropriate care and attention.
With these dynamics at play, many health-care providers do not focus on providing holistic solutions. Stale and simplistic narratives about why people get sick have transformed into invincible dogmas such that the only solution to illness is a magical pharmaceutical bullet. In other words, an external source must be the savior, and the patient is a mere victim.
Uncovering the true determinants of health and disease has become secondary, whereas it should be the primary objective in a system truly focused on well-being. That’s where health-care providers, in theory, should be directing their attention. In essence, allopathy often focuses on what’s under the microscope, rather than what’s within the “macroscope.”2
New Zealand surgeon-turned-naturopath Ulrich Williams saw this clearly back in 1937. He suggested basic principles that can redirect our current paradigm—and the thinking that underlies it—into something much better:
The orthodox healing system has failed for reasons that easily can be defined….We have failed because from our too narrow and materialistic outlook we have conceived of disease as something attacking us from without, due to germs; whereas disease whether of body, mind, soul, or estate, is mostly a gradual degenerative process going on within, due to failure to comply with the requirements of well-being. We fail because in the zones of physical limit we look outside ourselves for cause and cure of troubles arising within. We have failed because the whole complicated system of orthodox modern diagnosis and treatment is based upon a misconception that mistakes the symptom for the disease; and tinkering with effects while the cause is ignored and allowed to continue always has been and will be followed by deplorable consequences.3Furthermore, moving toward a better system of medicine might require looking back at ancient methods from a variety of cultures all over the world. Dr. Shamini Jain mentions Indian Ayurvedic, classical Chinese, and Tibetan teachings in particular, summarizing their approach and the implications thereof:
The body has an innate ability to heal itself, and this process can be encouraged by fostering proper flow of life force energy, which serves as a conduit between consciousness and physicality.
These Eastern teachings provide an underlying model to help us better understand and explore communications between the spirit, the body, and our environment. Disease is considered disharmony that might exist within one’s self or between one’s self and his or her surrounding environment. Thus, healing is not about curing yourself from something that is “not you” but understanding the patterns that might be causing you disharmony and therefore illness. The vital life force is a bridge that allows the healer—ultimately you—to better understand the nature of that disharmony and bring harmony back to your system.4
While we may not yet know exactly what a new paradigm of medicine will look like, at least we know what it won’t look like.5 Armed with a general compass for rethinking heath care, we have an opportunity to create a brighter future—both on an individual and collective level.
From the perspective of an individual, if we want to be healthy, it’s simply not wise to rely exclusively on the mainstream allopathic system and its health-care providers (perhaps outside of emergency situations). Finding real health solutions requires reconsidering the basic nature of disease.
In their book What Really Makes You Ill?, Dawn Lester and David Parker lay out what they consider to be the four determinants of illness:61. Nutrition
2. Toxic exposures
3. Electromagnetic radiation
4. Stress
Notice that they don’t focus on germs. Thus, from this perspective, “symptoms” reflect the body’s attempt to heal or detoxify from an underlying ailment in one of those categories. Modern labels of discrete diseases are in many ways arbitrary distinctions for varying symptoms. Those labels often tell us nothing about the real causes of those symptoms.
An even broader way to think about it, in my view, is that ill health comes from:
1. Physical injury and/or
2. Psychospiritual injury
The first category can be a physical ailment (from, say, sports), but it also can relate to other aspects of physicality such as poor diet, environmental toxicity, electromagnetic toxicity, and so on. The second category relates to one’s mental state, unresolved trauma, belief systems, emotions, “spiritual” connection, a sense of purpose in life, and even multidimensional matters that we don’t fully understand.
What, then, should we do to stay healthy? Holistic practitioners might vary in their specific recommendations—such as detoxification protocols, dietary recommendations, herb and/or supplement recommendations, electromagnetic-protection solutions, body-alignment and somatic modalities, spiritual-practice suggestions, and so forth. But there seem to be some basic lifestyle recommendations, that they suggest across the board, which anyone can implement, such as eating nutritious and clean food; drinking clean water; avoiding toxins; sleeping well; exercising; getting sunlight and fresh air; avoiding excessive electromagnetic radiation; minimizing toxic forms of light (such as blue light from electronic screens); spending time in nature; having positive relationships; working on processing and clearing trauma; practicing forgiveness; feeling emotions rather than suppressing them; setting appropriate boundaries in relationships; laughing; following passions and joy; experiencing gratitude; being authentic; engaging in centering practices like meditation or breathing exercises; feeling a strong spiritual connection; discovering and following one’s “soul purpose”; giving, receiving, and embodying love; and so on.7 Maintaining good health might be much simpler than we’ve been led to believe by a pharmaceutical-dominated paradigm. These basic practices, which are empowering and largely inexpensive, enable independence from the overarching societal power structure. Personal sovereignty isn’t possible without taking the reins over one’s own health.
On a collective level, this is an essential point. We saw during the COVID-19 era that a “crisis” can be used as a pretext for taking citizens’ rights away. What better way to control the global population than to bring about massive amounts of health-related fear—even for imaginary causes—wherein the only solution is the remedy provided by the authorities. The weaponization of fear around climate change has been taking on a similar quality.8
In fact, both are central pieces of the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset”—which was formally announced in June 2020 by Klaus Schwab and then–Prince Charles, and was described, in detail, in Schwab and Thierry Malleret’s July 2020 book COVID-19: The Great Reset. As discussed in my book An End to the Upside Down Reset (2023), COVID-19 presented an opportunity to reset all aspects of society in a manner that a small number of people consider to be ideal. Perhaps the most significant point about the Great Reset is that it’s not an agenda that emphasizes liberty or human flourishing; rather, it’s much more focused on limiting freedom under the guise of “compassion.” Thus, we are currently living through an attempted reshaping of society, and medicine is one of the key levers that’s being used to usher it in.
As I’ve often contended, these matters extend beyond physical concerns; they are part of what appears to be a “spiritual war.” One might wonder if the corrupt dynamics of the medical-industrial complex trace their roots to nonphysical forces of evil—the ultimate “string-pullers,” invisible to our ordinary perceptual abilities. Such forces are drawn to power, and they seem to thrive off of the suffering of others; perhaps they even feed off of negative energy. Thus, the notions of eugenics and depopulation—in other words, culling the population like cattle—doesn’t seem like a stretch. A medical system that’s ostensibly supposed to save people, but in fact ends up harming them, is the perfect instrument for such an objective. And furthermore, a weakened and unhealthy populace is much easier to control than a strong and healthy one.
Even transhumanism—merging humans with artificial intelligence and altering our natural form—is often being promoted. The spiritual impact of such activities on the bodily vessel might be more hazardous than scientists currently acknowledge.
On a related note, in 1917 the mystic Rudolf Steiner foresaw the following:
The time will come—and it may not be far off—when…people will say: It is pathological for people to even think in terms of spirit and soul. “Sound” people will speak of nothing but the body. It will be considered a sign of illness for anyone to arrive at the idea of any such thing as a spirit or a soul….The soul will be made nonexistent with the aid of a drug. Taking a “sound point of view,” people will invent a vaccine to influence the organism as early as possible, preferably as soon as it is born, so that this human body never even gets the idea that there is a soul and a spirit….
I have told you that the spirits of darkness are going to inspire their human hosts, in whom they will be dwelling, to find a vaccine that will drive all inclination towards spirituality out of people’s souls when they are very young.9 [emphasis added]
The dystopian books Brave New World and 1984 no longer seem like fictional possibilities for our future—and from a metaphysical perspective, such enslavement could have even greater consequences than we know.
Dr. Anthony Fauci has openly discussed a “next pandemic.”10 Future global health scares seem inevitable, and COVID-19 showed us that the world can be shut down in an instant if the authority figures choose to do so. People’s livelihoods can be determined on the basis of whether they take an experimental injection or not. A “positive” result on an unreliable test can lead to a mandatory quarantine sentence. Quarantine camps were even built as a result of COVID-19.11
Therefore, with such high stakes, discernment is essential; our ability to identify “wolves in sheep’s clothing” needs to be sharp. A big piece of that is seeing through the dangers and falsities of the allopathic system, upon which many control mechanisms in society are based. That entails breaking out of the hypnotic spell of conditioned belief systems and engaging in independent, critical thinking rather than parroting the opinions of “experts.” From a higher perspective, this process could be viewed as “evolutionary”: in order for us to transcend the darkness of our world, we must be able to accurately perceive deception and navigate accordingly. We must learn to see through “false light.” Therefore, the evil forces within the spiritual war either stimulate our growth and make us stronger (if we are able to catch on); or, if we don’t, they’ll consume us.
During his near-death experiences decades ago, Dannion Brinkley, the author of Saved by the Light (1994), was shown hints about our society’s future. As he summarizes the message in a 2023 interview: “I’ve been saying this for forty-eight years: the battle of humanity will be fought in health care.”12 [emphasis added]
The question then arises: How should we approach this battle? Thomas Friese provides sound guidance in his 2013 preface to Ernst Jünger’s The Forest Passage (1951). May these words echo in our consciousness as we navigate the treacherous waters ahead:
The forces seeking to exploit man today are but the latest incarnations of forces that have threatened individual freedom throughout history….
While [an individual’s journey to freedom] may bring collateral benefits for society, in particular for other individuals, it does not aim primarily at world-improvement: the collective, as a whole, is essentially beyond redemption, a priori a lost cause. It is only individuals,…rebels within society, that can hope, as exceptions, to escape the coercion, to “save their own souls.” The…rebel[s] [battle] the Leviathan not in the hopes of defeating it—for it eventually collapses under its own enormous weight—though [they] may promote this inevitable demise by inflicting strategic damage on it, and [they] can already help define and introduce the seeds of new freedoms for a post-Leviathan world. Rather, the… rebel[s] [have] two other immediate motivations in the here and now: first, to save [themselves]…and second, and not unrelated, to obey [their] conscience…which feels natural concern for its fellow human beings.13
An End to UpsideDown Medicine
Contagion, Viruses, and Vaccines—and Why Consciousness Is Needed for a New Paradigm of Health
Mark Gober
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