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.