In this article, I shall be discussing the restriction placed on doctors to have their own personal beliefs and asking if there is a need for a new movement: Doctors for Spiritual Freedom.
Why me and not you?
“I don’t get it, how come you guys can talk about all this and yet I get hauled up for doing exactly the same thing?” The people sitting around the table looked at each other before one person spoke gently but to the point. “Because our families didn’t shop us to the GMC” Ouch! The response was sharp but true.
It was 2003 and I had just spent the afternoon with a group of doctors in a pub in North London. The conversation had nonchalantly drifted from the channelling of the Pleiadians to reptilians beings and more. Typical in any New Age gang you might say, but this was not a typical New Age group – these were working medical doctors. They included a highly qualified General Practitioner (GP), an academic doctor who actually taught at medical schools as well as a woman who had recently gained a PhD.
They were openly discussing channelling of the Pleiadians, UFOs and other subjects that would not look out of place in a David Icke event. Except this was a discussion amongst doctors – pillars of society who were expected to make life and death decisions on a daily basis about other people’s lives and in one case also shape the medical minds of tomorrow.
Reported!
The conversation was about the type of interests in spirituality that I had privately held for many years. Yet in 2002, such interests had been reported to the General Medical Council, the British Medical Board, by my ex-husband and my parents as evidence of my supposed mental illness.
When our relationship started breaking down, my ex-husband had accessed my personal computer and extracted channellings and writings that he felt could point to me as a person with bipolar disorder. He admitted later that he wanted to take revenge for me leaving him. The members of the medical profession who saw what he submitted had no other framework in psychiatry other than illness for my spiritual beliefs. Spirituality to them is nothing but the ownership of crystals and a bit of meditation to relax. I know this because I used to think like this myself before I had a kundalini awakening. I thought that spirituality was a trend of fashion that you adopt.
The Medics who are not MD
There is no concept in the medical profession that someone can have multidimensional experiences whilst remaining healthy and functioning as a person. To them, all multidimensional experiences whether they be out-of-body, meeting spiritual guides or psychic phenomena are either fake or marks of various psychiatric illnesses. To be multidimensional, according to the medical profession, is to be insane.
Once the evidence of my spirituality was leaked to the British General Medical Council (GMC) by my husband, I really didn’t stand a chance. Despite several psychiatric appraisals in which I was deemed healthy, the evidence provided by my ex-husband meant that doubts about my state of mind persisted. He had even stuck the knife in telling them about my interest in David Icke’s work. Hence, I was questioned by GMC psychiatrists on my belief in reptilian beings and whether I thought they were ‘out to get me’. I was interrogated about my so-called hallucinations in which I could see and speak with angels. I was also asked if I was being controlled by New Age Channellings – those typical ‘energy reports’ that come periodically.
The fact is, my interests and actions at the time were not that different from any other fairly developed New Age mystic: I channelled, I had visions, I had contact with spirit guides, I was interested in conspiracy theories, I was a qualified healer and used tarot cards. Yet I was also a medical practitioner making life and death decisions about babies with potential meningitis and administering flu jabs.
A Spiritual Danger?
In the eyes of the medical profession, the two were incompatible. This is despite the fact that none of the doctors who worked with me had any inkling that I had a spiritual side to me. I had never received a complaint from a patient or from a colleague. As far as anyone was concerned I was a typical, newly graduated GP. I certainly did not combine any complementary therapies into my GP Practice and I am actually against people doing so. So why couldn’t I hold my personal, spiritual beliefs without being persecuted? Even with the testimony of my family, surely an examination of the evidence would have revealed a person who was perfectly grounded and coping with life who simply had different interests and beliefs?
But it seems I was not allowed to have both – be spiritual and be a doctor at the same time despite there being no overlap as far as my behaviour in clinical practice was concerned. Those doctors I sat with in the pub were also hiding their interests from the public for fear of also being persecuted.
Free to be you and me?
It all leads to one conclusion; doctors are not free to be spiritually open. If they were openly spiritual, even if it did not interfere with their medical practice, their very sanity would be questioned. I also think there is a distinction to be made between spirituality and something like paganism. Paganism is seen as a religion with certain practices – it is something physical that people DO and an organisation they belong to, although of course, it can encompass genuine spiritual connection.
Spirituality doesn’t have any sort of organisation. It is something that people ARE. People can understand a religious practice – It involves something material such as a bible or crystals. But when someone is going beyond that and actually claiming to have contacts with other beings, that is when sanity is questioned. Because there is nothing in the medical profession that accepts that these experiences are real. They always have to be pathological hallucinations. So any doctor who has any hint of such experiences would be questioned as if they are fit to practice. I am sure I am not the only doctor who is spiritual and has hidden it.
Hounded out
The British public paid an enormous amount of money to have me trained as a GP. I only worked for a very short time in the NHS because of this hounding which was a huge waste of public funds. I hope that nobody else ever has to go through the horrors that I went through but until there is a paradigm shift and doctors understand that spirituality does not ipso facto mean insanity, this could happen again.
I am suggesting that we allow doctors to be free to be who they are even if they are spiritual. They should have the freedom to do what they want in their spare time as long as it doesn’t interfere with their medical practice and harm patients. The medical profession needs to realise that other realms of reality are real. People do not always have a healthy relationship with them as in the case of mental illnesses. But there are many people who do have a healthy relationship with higher realms and some of them happen to be doctors.
Doctors for Spiritual Freedom
As long as the doctors are safe and not trying to impose their own views into patients, they should be free to believe what they wish. This is very important for all belief systems. I once witnessed a Christian doctor insisting that homosexuality should be added to the patient ‘problem’ list. He didn’t seem to understand that it wasn’t a medical problem per se to be homosexual because he was blinded by his beliefs.
The same should go for all doctors. Doctors should be free to be openly multidimensional and spiritual without the fear of investigation as long as they are following the rules of their profession. In short, I am calling for a movement that gives Doctors Spiritual Freedom. What do you think? Please leave a comment below.
Hi Manjir,
One word for you …RESPECT…you are one courageous lady. I can recall our conversation in 2003/4 ? I had just experienced an existential forced Kundalini and was seeking other doctors who were spiritually aware. Your frankness and empathy at the time were invaluable and I maintained my sanity and grew as a result.
I think that any professional who has trained in left brained specialties finds it even harder to process so called paranormal experiences. I had always had contact with spirit and was training as as spiritual healer when I had a Kundalini experience . This was a whole new level of weird and with a degree in biophysics and full medical training it did not fit my mindset. A massive cognitive dissonance if you will.
Speaking to other professional ‘head cases’ like you were deemed by the gmc was vital to my mental and spiritual healing but I did not come out fully for a year or two. THANKYOU.
One morning in my female GU med clinic a lady in her early forties was brought in by a nurse and ,as the lady sat down , a little boy with a lovely chubby face and gangly prepubertal legs ran past me. He had a white tea shirt on and navy or black shorts. He skipped past the patient and disappeared into the wall beside her. The clinic was busy so I just logged it mentally until I asked the patient about her gynae history .The patient told me she had lost a little boy in an accident and she had just come from a medium who told her her he followed her everywhere. To my immense and continuing disgrace I did not tell her I had just seen him too for fear of being sacked. The lady had no risk factors or partner and did not need screening..spirit had sent her to me and I had chickened out. Next day I found her notes but there were no contact details …I still feel bad about it some 15 years on but after that I never chickened out and thankfully was never let down. You risked all for your beliefs and keep up the good work. I suspect your ex husband may have been a noble friend …..someone sent to push you towards fulfilling your soul’s contract. I do hope he has seen your success tho🥴🤭. Much love . A
Dear Anona
I had no idea that my story had in any way helped you back then. And kudos to you for having the courage to go through this ‘coming out’ too in the medical profession. You are an amazing mystic. Indeed my healing started when I could see everyone was playing their part perfectly. Thank you for dropping by with your wisdom.
Thankyou ..sadly I seem to have lost my ability to connect with spirit since having to take on the more earthly role of caring part time for elderly relatives.
One curious funny experience I should have mentioned is that many years ago ,within two days in a female GU clinic , two unrelated patients presented with the complaint of severe pelvic pain following a Kundalini event! The same nurse was with me at the time and we shared a glance of surprise. Both patients were relieved and I think pleased when I replied SNAP..and then went on to exclude less esoteric causes of pelvic pain. Spirit works in strange ways 😀
So interesting. Thank you for sharing. It is brave to speak of kundalini in the NHS. You are amazing!
Dr. Manjir, thank you so much for this post! I hope to add to this soon because this is an issue I find both critical to humankind and close to my heart. For the moment, since I’m pressed for time, I’d like to share this link with you. You may be interested in Dr. Raymond Moody’s University of Heaven. He coined the term NDE. I have heard him speak, and he is an amazing man with much to offer. When we mention other worlds, his face glows with delight and recognition.
https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/
Best wishes! Leslee
Thank you for your comments, Leslee. I look forward to reading more of your thoughts on this matter. I am lucky enough to have seen Dr Moody speak too. A pioneer!
I attended a lecture by Stanislav Grof called The Healing Potential of Non-ordinary States of Consciousness over 20 years ago in Tokyo. I remember he said something about that there should be changes to the DSM manual to include spiritual awakenings and that many people are mis-diagnosed as psychotic when in fact they are having difficulty managing sudden spiritual openings.
Also over 20 years ago a Japanese newspaper had an essay contest on the topic of SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence).
I was trained at university as a geophysicist but I entered the competition with an essay focussed on using consciousness and quantum mechanics to try and communicate.
Some years ago my wife and I both came across your Punk Science book ON THE SAME DAY from different sources! Something mysterious and wonderful was going on!
I am shocked to hear of your troubles with the UK medical people. Good on you for what you are doing.
Thank you. I was not aware that Stanislav Grof spoke on this matter. I love that story about Punk Science. My second book, The Genius Groove charts more of my encounter with the GMC. Thank you so much for your comment and encouragement.