Question: What is a doctor in a spiritual sense?

Answer: This is a very complex topic because an ordinary person entrusts a doctor with the most valuable thing they have. After all, a person does not live a spiritual life. What they possess is their ordinary life, their physical body. And when this physical body no longer obeys them, they hope it will obey the doctor. In this sense, the doctor becomes a supreme being to them.

A doctor feels this attitude from the person and accordingly the immense responsibility that comes with it. They cannot simply brush it off and move on. Meanwhile they may have dozens if not hundreds of patients. Day in and day out new patients are added while the old ones weigh on them, and so on. It is an enormous workload.

No one teaches doctors that they need to be like gods, nor is there any serious psychological support provided to them. Furthermore, we lack a clear medical code that defines how a doctor should interact with a patient, even though the patient imposes their perception of the doctor as a Healer with a capital “H.”

Today the relationship between patients and doctors is not like it was in ancient societies where people generally understood that they live and die and a doctor could help to some extent. Nowadays the doctor is placed on such a pedestal that your life is entirely in their hands, or so it seems. This is incredibly challenging. It is extremely difficult for a modern person to stand on such a pedestal.

Question: Why does a person not just change their profession? It would be easier to leave.

Answer: No, they cannot change. They cannot leave. Being a doctor is not just a profession. First of all, becoming a doctor takes 10 to 15 years. Second, it carries immense responsibility toward society, toward family, toward everyone. Third, it involves honor, respect, and the public’s attitude toward the doctor.

This is a calling you cannot simply walk away from. As a result, a doctor feels trapped in this role.
The entire field of medicine is in an unhealthy state. However, it is starting to realize this. Efforts are being made in some places to address these issues. Unfortunately, it is a very difficult path of awareness, purification, and improvement.

Question: How can we help doctors?

Answer: Doctors can only be helped if a spiritual minister is placed alongside them. It does not matter who, a psychologist for example, which is essentially the same thing. This person must be present and take on the psychological burden of the patient.

When a doctor, for instance, gives a patient an injection, the spiritual minister holds the patient’s hand. In this way, the person is cared for both spiritually and physically. They are supported. The essence of the person, their soul and body, is tended to by two specialists.

We cannot escape this necessity, because our souls are constantly evolving. They are becoming increasingly complex and delicate. As they develop into more intricate systems, they reveal more and more of their internal subsystems, which makes them harder to manage. Therefore even the simplest person today is not like those of the past.

Take someone who lived, say, 200 years ago, a writer, poet, or artist, and compare them to a modern individual. You will find that even a vagrant today has a more refined psychological state and greater sensitivity than an intellectual from two centuries ago.

That is why we have no choice but to take serious care of people today.

Question: Which is more challenging, the illness of the soul or the illness of the body?

Answer: An inner illness of the soul is far more difficult because it is the root of all illnesses—all of them! If a person has the right attitude toward the world, you could immerse them in icy water for an hour, and they would remain unharmed.

Question: And what is the right attitude toward the world?

Answer: The right attitude is being in harmony, not only with the physical world, but most importantly with one’s inner nature. They do not feel separate from it.

Question: How can this state be achieved?

Answer: There are various techniques, but not Eastern ones. Though Eastern practices achieve this somewhat, they are no longer effective for modern individuals because they primarily worked on a primitive level of connecting a person to nature and the surrounding world to create some unity between the inner world and nature.

The problem is that the inanimate, vegetative, and animal degrees of nature coexist within one another. But humans evolve at an extraordinary speed. As a result, they suddenly feel detached from nature, rise above it, and create artificial forms of existence. They step outside the boundaries of nature.

This separation occurred thousands of years ago. However, the most significant detachment happened around the Middle Ages and beyond over the last 300 to 400 years. This has led to psychological, physical, and other problems.

On one hand we compensate for this detachment through knowledge of our nature and attempt to address the issues mechanically. On the other hand we can no longer live harmoniously with nature like animals. We are no longer part of nature. We have risen above it. As a result, we try to dominate, suppress, and control it. But of course, nothing good comes of this.

Question: What is needed?

Answer: We need to understand how we can complement nature and how nature can complement us.

Question: We began this conversation by discussing how medical students increase the risk of suicide during their training. What “pill” can be given to help them grow stronger with this knowledge and counteract the threat?

Answer: A person must understand the world they live in. They must see the interconnectedness and wholeness of our world. They must view themselves as the highest integral part of this world, and complement it. They need to understand how their harmony, inner and outer, affects the world. Only then will everything fall into place with no problems for doctors and no societal grievances toward them.

Question: How can they consistently return to this understanding to draw strength from it?

Answer: Doctors must be taught not only about “pills,” so to speak. There is also a correction of the soul. There is no other way. The correction of the soul correction is essential.

A doctor is not just a doctor. We cannot separate a person’s inner part from their outer part and neglect the soul simply because no one knows what it is. We must see the person as a connected whole. Only then can we understand health.

Health is essentially the balance between all parts of a person. Today, what relates to the mind or psychology is the main problem that destabilizes people and must be balanced. We will reach this understanding. But how much more suffering and awareness will it take?

Doctors are already experiencing such states and will ultimately help us in this realization. They will come to understand that this is precisely what they lack, and that the patient is a whole being. Therefore hospitals, clinics, and life in general must include specialists who help balance the soul.

After all, medicine is about achieving balance within the human systems. Each system has a spiritual and a material part. Doctors learn to manage the material part, but the spiritual part must also be balanced.

By achieving this, we can alleviate much of the burden on the material side. Through inner balance and the right attitude toward oneself and the world, we can achieve equilibrium that impacts our material systems. In essence, this is what we call “disease” or “health”—our balance at all levels.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/14/20

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