Pathways to Conscious Health
External Locus of Control By Dr Catherine Fyans We have reached the pinnacle of collectively giving our power over to that external agent, the hallowed ‘magic bullet’, the much-awaited saviour; exemplified by the fervent rush of many people to get an experimental medical intervention injected into their unsuspecting bodies. This has reached an almost fanatical, cult-like pitch, driven by the relentless whipped-up hype from the media as it does the biding of its authoritarian masters. People have been led by the nose to this point in medical history, having long been subjected to systematic programming that has entrained the populace into believing that they can only rely on the artificial and laboratory produced to maintain health. We have been trained to pay homage to the artificial by-products of our one-sided intellectual prowess, aided by a heavy dose of scientism. Unnatural medical practices have become the unquestioned norm by the majority of health care practitioners and consumers,
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who forget that the practice of medicine is as much an art as a science.
“We have been trained to pay homage to the artificial by-products of our one-sided intellectual prowess, aided by a heavy dose of scientism.” The trust in science and its associated industries is so great that it’s assumed that these institutions have only the very best interests of humanity at heart and are beyond any bias, human error and vested interests. This blind faith in the system represents an almost innocent, childlike trust in the perceived benevolent, protective parent that these groups represent too much of the populace.
The immense and everexpanding plethora of scientific research has not actually stopped disease and un-wellness from occurring. A reductionist, solely intellectual understanding of what constitutes health, can only ever be incomplete, as can its supposed remedies. Much of modern healthcare is based on fear and encourages an external locus of control, on which the prevalent problem-reactionsolution model is reliant. Materialists, those who believe only in a tangible, physical reality, will be much more invested in external physical solutions to overcome the perceived external physical causes of their problems. The very ‘self’ hardly needs to get involved, let alone delve into any related dysfunction and locus of attraction within. The crème-de-la-crème of this materialist approach to healthcare is the hallowed injection, the blessed ‘magic
