Heroic Doctors

Internal vs External Authority

In my ongoing analysis of Covid dynamics, personal authority has emerged as an essential attribute of the psychological differences between the followers and the challengers of the official narrative. It's also key in distinguishing between the compliers and the refusers of Covid shots.    

How doctors handled the pandemic has big implications. Access to one’s internal authority--along with the cultivation of a society that encourages, rather than suppresses autonomy--is essential to our global survival strategy. It is a matter of conscious evolution. “Evolution by choice, not by chance.” Barbara Marx Hubbard

See:

·      The Psychology of Veridos on the less than 5% of courageous truth tellers

·      Misdiagnosing Vaccine Hesitancy accurately classifying attitudes about Covid shots

·      Who Refused the Covid Shots? about refusal by level of formal education, which led to this analysis of doctors

Courageous, ethical doctors who stand up for truth and health have been persecuted, primarily by other doctors in official capacities under a system of domination. Let’s go deeper than good guys and bad guys. Let’s consider the interaction of two dimensions:

1.    Individual psychological differences between internal versus external authority.

2.    Those work environments that allow professional autonomy and independence versus those with constraints, coercions and required conformity to rules.

What are the different kinds of docs?

·      Courageous, pioneering, innovative doctors (and nurses and scientists).

·      Doctors in hospitals who comply with dictated protocols.

·      Official CDC and FDA doctors, with conflicts of interest and revolving doors who authorize Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs); state medical boards and others who set the stage for policies and mandates.

·      Promoters and organizers of mass vaccination campaigns in convention centers, pop up clinics, school gyms, and pharmacies.

·      Government agencies and insurance companies that create incentives that seduce doctors to compromise their ethics.

·      Beyond the scope of this article are known forces of domination, including the Department of Defense, Big Tech, Big Media, the WHO, the WEF, and the Bank for International Settlements, central banks and others who have for decades been orchestrating global lockstep coordination (see Sasha Latypova and KatherineWitt).

·      Driving the known forces are unknown, invisible powers. Some speculate about them, but much remains hidden.

Doctors’ actions range from designing oppressive systems, to orchestrating them, to propagandizing, to enforcing, to participating, to colluding, to struggling with internal conflicts from external pressures, to resisting, resigning, and whistleblowing,

The Critical Role of Developing, Recognizing and Exercising One’s Authority

Devoted, clinically experienced, and published doctors and scientists acting upon their earned, legitimate authority have been defamed, fired, and de-platformed for their independence. Some lost their licenses at the hands of other doctors, state medical boards, other authorities and the media.

A few frontline doctors took responsibility to find treatments for Covid from day one. Beholden to their patients, they did not passively wait for a magical vaccine or treatment. They relied on their own clinical experience as every ethical, competent, doctor should. With humility and curiosity, they shared information and collaborated with colleagues to establish best practices.

They reviewed the literature to identify safe repurposed FDA-approved drugs, effective for similar symptomatology. They promoted early treatment and kept most patients out hospitals. They prevented cytokine storms and prevented and/or treated long Covid.  Now they are pioneering a new science and art to treat “vaccine” injuries, never seen before.

These pioneer docs exercised their internal authority. Prioritizing their patients, they did not submit to the dictates of the Official Narrative. What is the difference between doctors who take personal risks for truth versus those who comply with the system orthodoxy? 

Doctors with a strong sense of their own authority are more likely to design and be in control of their own situation. They may have their own practice and be their own boss, head a department or research project, teach, or have authority within a system. They are accountable to their patients, their Hippocratic Oath and their profession. The buck stops with them.

Many went beyond treating their patients to warning the public, to educating at conferences like Doctors for Covid Ethics, to testifying to Congress and creating initiatives like the Great Barrington Declaration.

In human development, one’s authority evolves from a foundation of basic trust fostered by nurturing childrearing practices and educational systems. Cultural conditions that support individuation, maturity, and the strength to withstand opposition create a basis for the emergence of moral heroism. We need to consciously cultivate and accelerate this capacity.

… the individual’s goal must be to become his own authority; i.e., to have a consciousness in moral issues, conviction in questions of intellect, and fidelity in emotional matters. However, the individual can only have such an inner authority if he has matured enough to understand the world with reason and love. The development of these characteristics is the basis for one’s own authority and therefore the basis for political democracy. ---- Erich Fromm, “The Authoritarian Personality” article, 1957

The immunity of the nation depends entirely upon the existence of a leading minority immune to the evil and capable of combating the powerful suggestive effect. — C. G. Jung, The Symbolic Life, para. 1400.

Working Under External Authority

Doctors who work in hospitals are in a dramatically different position. Since Covid, their autonomy and discretion in treating their patients has been undermined and superseded by a system that suddenly required them to follow uniform dictated protocols without question, even against their own judgment or their patients’ families’ wishes.

Hospital staff have been instructed to list Covid as a diagnosis and as a cause of death for patients with other diagnoses. They are forbidden to prescribe ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine despite the fact that billions of doses have been safely administered around the globe over decades. These medications have historically been listed as safe, even for pregnant women. In many countries they were available over the counter and even were distributed by governments to treat Covid. Desperate, knowledgeable families, denied these promising medications, had to get lawyers to demand their right to these treatments in hospitals. Some watched their loved ones die waiting for a court to act.

Note that an EUA is only permissible if no alternative treatments exist, so if ivermectin and hydroxychloroquinehad been acknowledged to be effective treatments, there would have been no need or legal basis for “vaccines.”

Hospitals are obscenely incentivized to coerce their doctors to place people on ventilators and to prescribe Remdesivir and other approved treatments. They are paid $13,000 for each Covid diagnosis, $39,000 for putting people on ventilators, more to list Covid as the cause of death and receive a 20% bonus on the total bill for prescribing Remdesivir.

Hospitals make up a closed informational system that fosters groupthink, reinforced by media and government agencies. Employment and acceptance by peers depends on submission to an external authority. Thinking for oneself is discouraged or punished.

Some docs unquestioningly believe their sanctioned authorities. Some struggle with cognitive dissonance. Some wake up. Some leave. Some fear consequences of speaking up. Some are punished. Most are compelled to comply, regardless of how they feel.

Some have been injured or killed by mandated “vaccines.” Before vaccines, many healthcare workers that had been formerly lauded as heroes got Covid while treating patients. Those who recovered acquired superior natural immunity. Nonetheless, they were still required to get Covid shots they didn’t need, which made them more vulnerable to adverse reactions.

A Note About the Bigger Context: Foxes All the Way Up

These doctors are playing out a drama initiated at higher levels of layered, interlocking systems that include medical training and practice, hospital systems, and regulations.

Both heroic and compliant doctors function under the top-down control of medical license boards; specialty certification boards; the Alphabet federal health agencies FDA, CDC, and NIH; Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Media, the WHO, the Department of Defense and more.

Although CDC and FDA doctors appear to act as authorities, they are in fact submissive to powerful authoritarian forces above them. They play their part in the bigger system, for which they are handsomely rewarded. They do not think for themselves.

Interaction Between Individual and Social Psychology: Personal Authority and Situational Freedom

Some disciplines within psychology address individual psychology - clinical psychology, psychoanalysis, personality theory, etc. Some deal with collective psychology – organizational psychology, systems theory and social psychology.

After World War II several psychologists grappled with how the Holocaust could have happened. Some wondered whether it could happen in the US. This led to theories on the Authoritarian Personality and the Fascism Scale. Social psychology theories explored the social conditions under which “normal” people would commit violent acts they would not otherwise engage in. These include Solomon Asch’s experiments on social pressures to conform, Stanley Milgram’s studies on obedience to authority and Phil Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison experiment.

Let’s consider the interactions between personality and environment. Here is a 2 x 2 matrix showing the possible arrangements of internal authority and external degrees of freedom and autonomy.

Authority vs. Autonomy

1.    High internal authority and high professional autonomy - Heroic Pioneer Docs - They are more likely to create work situations where they can be their own boss. They self-select for positions that allow them to assume initiative and primary responsibility. Inner attributes match external environment so they do not experience inner conflict.

2.    High external authority and low professional autonomy – Compliant Hospital Docs –They are submissive to authority.  Inner attributes match external environment so they may not experience inner conflict.

3.    High internal authority and low professional autonomy - Conflicted Docs -- Inner attributes do not match external environment so they may experience inner conflict, cognitive dissonance, struggle with speaking up or remaining silent, painfully complying or leaving. Whistleblowers have high internal authority and low external autonomy.    

4.    High external authority and high professional autonomy -This is a less common group that may be happy to work with heroic doctors.

Conclusion

This series is intended to produce a precise analysis of our current condition, which is essential to inform our strategies for resolution and transformation. Focusing on the acquisition of legitimate internal authority as a matter of healthy human development makes it possible to get beyond the dualistic trap of right/wrong, us/them framing.

Current systems are designed to induce conformity and compliance which render people vulnerable to domination. It is a matter of great urgency to cultivate individuality (not individualism) within the family¹ in childrearing practices, in educational systems, in the culture, the workplace, the media and the government.

We must begin with ourselves.

MORE JUNG QUOTES

From the blurb of The Undiscovered Self, First published January 1, 1961:

One of the world’s greatest psychiatrists reveals how to embrace our own humanity and resist the pressures of an ever-changing world.
 
In this challenging and provocative work, Dr. Carl Jung—one of history’s greatest minds—argues that civilization’s future depends on our ability as individuals to resist the collective forces of society. Only by gaining an awareness and understanding of one’s unconscious mind and true, inner nature —“the undiscovered self”—can we as individuals acquire the self-knowledge that is antithetical to ideological fanaticism…. Jung compellingly argues that only then can we begin to cope with the dangers posed by mass society - “the sum total of individuals”—and resist the potential threats posed by those in power.

Indeed, it is becoming ever more obvious that it is not famine, not earthquakes, not microbes, not cancer but man himself who is man’s greatest danger to man, for the simple reason that there is no adequate protection against psychic epidemics, which are infinitely more devastating than the worst of natural catastrophes. 

The supreme danger which threatens individuals as well as whole nations is a psychic danger. Reason has proved itself completely powerless, precisely because its arguments have an effect only on the conscious mind and not on the unconscious.

The greatest danger of all comes from the masses, in whom the effects of the unconscious pile up cumulatively and the reasonableness of the conscious mind is stifled. Every mass organization is a latent danger just as much as a heap of dynamite is. It lets loose effects which no man wants and no man can stop.

It is therefore in the highest degree desirable that a knowledge of psychology should spread so that men can understand the source of the supreme dangers that threaten them. Not by arming to the teeth, each for itself, can the nations defend themselves in the long run from the frightful catastrophes of modern war. The heaping up of arms is itself a call to war. Rather must they recognize those psychic conditions under which the unconscious [tsunami-like] bursts the dykes of consciousness and overwhelms it. ” — The Undiscovered Self

Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself. — Psychology of the Unconscious

The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual. The more unrelated individuals are, the more consolidated the State becomes, and vice versa. — The Undiscovered Self.

For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him. — Civilization in Transition

It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . . interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible... Memories, Dreams, Reflections

The achievement of personality means nothing less than the optimum development of the whole individual human being. It is impossible to foresee the endless variety of conditions that have to be fulfilled. A whole lifetime, in all its biological, social, and spiritual aspects, is needed. Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncrasy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination. To educate a man to this seems to me no light matter. It is surely the hardest task the modern mind has set itself. — The Development of Personality

What is it, in the end, that induces a man to go his own way and to rise out of unconscious identity with the mass as out of a swathing mist ? Not necessity, for necessity comes to many, and they all take refuge in convention. Not moral decision, for nine times out of ten we decide for convention likewise. What is it, then, that inexorably tips the scales in favour of the extra-ordinary ? It is what is commonly called vocation : an irrational factor that destines a man to emancipate himself from the herd and from its well-worn paths. — The Development of Personality

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.  The Undiscovered Self

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1. Acknowledgement to David Schonbrunn for help with editing and encouragement