Title: Are You a "Patient" or a "Projector"? The Hypnosis of the Healing Industry
Subtitle: A challenging perspective from The Shastra of No Mind on why our systems often fail us
Date: 2025-12-24
Tags: medical system, psychology, responsibility, no mind, awakening
This is a sensitive but necessary discussion. It is not an attack on medicine or compassionate healers, but an examination of a hidden psychological trap that can keep us bound to illness.
We are conditioned from birth: When something is wrong, seek an expert. See a doctor. Get a diagnosis. Follow a treatment. This is logical and often lifesaving for acute, physical trauma.
But for chronic conditions, unexplained pains, anxiety, and the vast realm of stress-related illness, this same reflex can become a central part of the problem. Here’s why, as explored in Chapter 7.3:
The "Patient" Identity is a Hypnotic Suggestion.
When you enter the system seeking a label for your discomfort, what you are often unconsciously asking for is: "Please confirm the reality of my suffering. Please tell me what is wrong with me."
The diagnosis—"fibromyalgia," "autoimmune disorder," "anxiety disorder"—however valid medically, performs a powerful psychological operation: It crystallizes the story. It takes the fluid, energy-based process of 'mind at work' congealing your attention and turns it into a solid, named thing that you "have."
You are no longer someone experiencing a dynamic flow of energy; you are a "patient with X." This identity becomes a new focal point for your attention (and the collective attention of everyone who knows), feeding the very cycle of solidification the diagnosis describes.
You begin to perform your diagnosis. You monitor for symptoms. You interpret normal fluctuations as signs of progression. You attend regular appointments that are, in essence, rituals to reconfirm your membership in the "sick" category.
This is the collective hypnosis. The system, designed to help, can inadvertently teach you to invest in your own illness as a stable identity. The healing journey becomes about managing a permanent flaw, not realizing the flaw's insubstantial, projected nature.
The No Mind Alternative: From Patient to Aware Space
This is not about abandoning care. It is about changing the fundamental relationship from within.
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Use Diagnosis as Data, Not Identity: Receive medical information as useful feedback about current energy patterns, not as the final truth of your being. "The energy is currently manifesting as X" is different from "I am an X person."
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Withdraw the Projection of "Sick-Self": Your most potent healing act is to cease projecting the "patient" story onto yourself. In your quiet moments, practice not being a patient. Be the awareness that notices the body, the thoughts about illness, the fears. This awareness is inherently whole.
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Break the Ritual of Reinforcement: If a treatment or check-up makes you feel more defined by your illness, question its role. Seek support that empowers your wholeness, not just manages your "brokenness."
True healing occurs when you starve the illusory "sick self" of your belief and attention. When you stop projecting it, the world—including the medical system—stops reflecting it back to you. Then, whatever interventions remain are simply practical tools used by a being who is fundamentally free and well.
The most radical healing is to dissolve the "healer" and the "patient," and rest as the wholeness that contains both.
Excerpt from The Shastra of No Mind, Chapter 7.3:
"By regularly seeing doctors or healers, you often perform a ritual that 'confirms' the disease... This entire system can become a vast collective hypnosis based on the fear of 'mind at work.'"
