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Toward a new paradigm of health and human

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Julene Siddique

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DOI: 10.1080/02604027.2018.1427334

TOWARD A NEW PARADIGM OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

POTENTIAL

Julene Siddique
The Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research, Lucca, Italy

In today’s highly dynamic and changing industries there are an incredible array
of things converging, all of which are signalling a significant need for a new
paradigm in health and medicine. Scientific revolutions have brought forward
new forms of knowledge, which fundamentally oppose the premises on which
the majority of our traditional medical institutions are based. Through my CIRR
framework (Critique, Insight, Re-Define, Re-Structure) I will bring forward the
key elements and principles of what this paradigm shift is and what would be
involved in bringing it into fruition. There are 3 key elements of a paradigm shift
which I will review through the CIRR framework these are a) structural and sys-
temic elements b) dynamics of social constituents and pathologies and c) shifts
in thinking that have given rise to new forms of knowledge that enable new forms
of research and practice. I will demonstrate that the key elements involved in a
genuine paradigm shift are here, however it’s up to us to bring it into fruition. I
hope to inspire both researchers and practitioners towards this new paradigm in
health and human potential.

KEYWORDS: Healthcare Reform, holistic, social medicine

Health is wealth. It is our most valuable asset. Without it we cannot live, thrive,
or succeed. In today’s highly dynamic cultural geographies and changing indus-
tries there are an incredible array of things converging, all which are signaling a
significant need for a new paradigm in health and medicine. The confluence of
post-material science, technology, and health-related social movements all point
toward a new era of health not just as the absence of illness but as an ongoing
process for the realization of human potential and consciousness.
The criticisms of our current healthcare system are growing every day and
alongside this, scientific revolutions have brought forward new forms of knowl-
edge, which fundamentally oppose the premises on which the majority of our
current medical institutions are based. A new paradigm of health and human
potential requires that we operate with a more evolved consciousness about the
very nature of the human being. Recognizing and understanding the fundamental
causes of illness and disease, whether they be psycho-emotional, social, envi-
ronmental, or a combination of all the above, is vital. It is these new forms of

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knowledge and expanded understanding that are at the heart of the paradigm
shift.
This new paradigm of health and human potential is still in emergence.
However, all the key factors needed for a paradigm shift are here. It therefore
is up to us to work together to really bring it into fruition. It’s important to
understand what factors and dynamics are at the heart of the emergence of this
new paradigm. General features that mark the emergence of a new paradigm,
could be grouped into three main areas. These are ∗ a) structural and systemic
elements, ∗ b) Dynamics of social constituents and pathologies, and (3) Shifts in
thinking that have given rise to new forms of knowledge that, within the arena of
health, are enabling new forms of research, treatments, and health programs.
In this article I will be using my CIRR framework to address the three key
areas of this paradigm shift. The CIRR framework consists of Critique, Insight,
Re-Defining, and Re-Structuring. The CIRR framework will be applied to the three
main areas mentioned above. Through acknowledging and analyzing structural
and systemic problems of our current system we illuminate knowledge about what
kinds of features, models, and formats a new system of healthcare would need. By
understanding the social constituents of health we can cultivate new communi-
ties, dynamics, and social movements for this much needed system change. Yet
the heart of this paradigm shift and any paradigm shift are new forms of knowl-
edge. For it is these new forms of knowledge in post-material science and psy-
chosomatic understanding of the human being and the energetic-informational
understanding of illness that enable us to re-order our thinking, research, and
practice into new structures, institutions, treatments, and new dynamics for
changing the way we behave and engage with health. So that health becomes
more than health … so that it becomes about regeneration, transformation, and
human potential. I hope to highlight the value of this new paradigm both in the-
ory and practice as well as inspire you towards the frontiers of new paradigm
research.

WHY DO WE NEED A NEW PARADIGM IN HEALTH AND HUMAN

POTENTIAL?
Something as precious as health cannot be taken lightly. Most of us in one way
or another have been ill or have witnessed a loved one with illness. Many of us
have also lost loved ones to various diseases. Would it not make all the difference
to know that there are many more treatment options available than what current
mainstream medicine is offering? Would it not be nice to receive more informa-
tion about your illness than what current doctors are able to provide? Would it
not be nice for a greater environment of CARE to be an integral part of health
services rather than being rushed in and rushed out? Would it not be nice if you
were able to undertake programs that enabled you to tap into the knowledge and
power of your body so you did not have to go to the doctor so often to “find out”
what’s going on? And would it not be amazing for us to move beyond this stifling
paradigm of “health as the absence of illness” and move into the transformation of
illness through regenerative medicine that works toward development of human
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potential?! That is exactly what the new paradigm is about; it’s about new forms
of knowledge and therefore development of new practices that are shifting health
away from only being only about illness and moving more toward a new concept
and practice of health as an ongoing process for the unlocking of human potential
and consciousness.
The CIRR framework begins with critiques and insights. These critiques and
their respective insights will be applied first to the systemic elements, second
to social constituents, and then finally to previous scientific concepts. Follow-
ing these sections on critique and insight, I will proceed to a second section
demonstrating how this “re-defining” of concepts is interlinked to a re-structuring
of medical practice. I will finish with summarizing what differentiates the old
paradigm from the new and put forward some suggestions for new paradigm
research.

CRITIQUES AND INSIGHTS ON THE THREE KEY PARADIGM SHIFT

FACTORS
The first area of critique and insight is on the systemic elements
Medical Anthropology has clearly laid out the history and politics, which have
shaped medical practice. Groundbreaking texts such as Foucault’s The Birth of the
Clinic (1973) demonstrate the level of social construction and politics involved in
what is currently readily accepted as “medical science” and “clinical practice.”
The history and politics that have shaped medical practice are clear, but what is
also becoming clear is the extent to which the current business model and sys-
tem on which our medical industry is based have critical flaws, which have grave
consequences for the public.
Academic and medical doctor Ben Goldacre (2013) boldly brought these sys-
temic criticisms forward in his thought provoking book Bad Pharma: How Drug
Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients. Numerous academics such as
Wollinsky (2005) and Moynihan, Health, and Henry (2002) have also brought
forward criticisms regarding systemic problems in the drug an pharmaceutical
industry that are designed toward the perpetuation of illness and drug manufactur-
ing rather than the betterment of the patient’s health. Reactions can also be noted
within the scientific community to respond to these systemic problems such as
Science Based Medicine (https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/about-science-based-
medicine/) who are looking at systemic solutions to fix the pharmaceutical industry
model as well scientifically examining the growing controversies existing between
science and drug-based medicine.
The systemic problems in the health industries are not jut having a poor effect
on patients but also on doctors. Reports have been made public about the declining
mental health in doctors because of the high demands of the profession. In the
United Kingdom it still remains a “taboo” for doctors to express their difficulties.
“Unrelenting pressure, inhumane working hours and brutal competition is driving
health professionals to the brink of suicide. Readers report depression, anxiety,
burnout and post traumatic stress disorder” (Stankovic, 2017, n.p.). How can we
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expect an environment of care or wellbeing when the doctors themselves are not
able to be healthy in the current healthcare system. Some laid testimony to the
cause of this “Doctors are depressed because the shifts are anti-social” (Stankovic,
2017, n.p.). Rather than making antisocial shifts toward individualistic competitive
medical professions that are isolating medical professionals, the new paradigm
moves toward more community-based social shifts and systemic solutions that
supports both doctors and patients.

THESE SYSTEMIC CRITIQUES PROVIDE US WITH KEY AREAS OF

INSIGHT THAT WE CAN USE TO RE-DEFINE MEDICAL PRACTICE
There are many insights we can gain from the systemic problems of the phar-
maceutical industry business model and the highly stressful demands of hospital
working conditions. The goal of developing insights is to look at things with a
more humane eye and therefore to question accepted institutional and cultural
norms through a process of humanization.1
Fundamentally, the systemic problems with the pharmaceutical industry model
reveal the materialistic understanding of illness. The “profit over people” aspect
of the drug-driven business model demonstrates a lack of knowledge regard-
ing human potential and the psychosoma-informatic understanding of the human
being that New Paradigm science has to offer. The majority of drugs treat the
symptoms of the illness, meaning the physical manifestation of the disease. The
key insight from this is moving from symptomology to a cause-based analysis,
seeking to understand the very nature and causes of illness. We also believe that
by administering this new paradigm of more holistic medicine a better environ-
ment of care could be created to benefit doctors as well as patients.
In the new paradigm of health and human potential we seek to understand
the nature and causes of illness through a number of means. These can include
the informatic-energetic nature of the illness; the psycho-emotional causes of dis-
ease that are manifesting physically as illness; analysis of deficiencies, toxins, and
imbalances in the body; as well as personal lifestyle and environmental factors
in a person’s life that are perpetuating the illness. The new paradigm of medicine
seeks to analyze the causes of illness through a much more holistic understanding.

Information governs the processes of life in every part of the organism … the role
of information cannot be radically segmented in the living system: the informa-
tion that governs the whole can not be reduced to the information that governs
the part. A disease surfacing as a cellular or organ malfunction in a part implies a
flaw in the information that regulates processes in the whole organism, as well as
among sets of organisms in their environment. (Manifesto for a New Paradigm
of Medicine, 2013, p. 2)

Because this new paradigm of medicine is post-material and focuses on under-

standing and treating the informational causes of the illness, it is therefore much
more focused on curative life properties and “health potentials.” The Club of
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Budapest Symposium on Stresa re-visted the Stresa Declaration and put forward
the following principles for overcoming the limitations of mainstream medicine
and creating a new paradigm of medicine:

Limitations inherent in the reductive approach of mainstream medicine can be

overcome. This requires first, that we pay due attention to the curative and health-
preserving potentials of natural substances. These substances are produced in and
by the organism or in it’s life-support environment. … They are likely to contain
or complement the information needed to maintain the organism in a condition
of health and vitality. (Manifesto for a New Paradigm of Medicine, 2013, p. 2)

The manifesto goes further to explain how new paradigm medicine can extend
the current limitations of medical practice:

Another way to overcome the reductive imitations of mainstream medicine is by

observing, measuring, and analysing the wider interactions that maintain order
and coherence in the organism as well as among organisms. There are flows of
energy as well as of information that embrace the entire organism as well as it’s
relations with other organisms, and are essential to it’s survival and development.
(Manifesto for a New Paradigm of Medicine, 2013, p. 3)

In order to investigate the causes and nature of illness through this lens, the
New Paradigm includes cutting edge technologies, which reveal psycho-emotional
aspects of illness as well as informational and energetic factors. Some examples of
these new health technologies are such as Korotkov’s Electro-photonic-imaging
device (www.gdvcamera.com) and Marcus Schmieke’s TimeWaver Information
Field Devices (www.timewaver.com). Technologies such as the Calmspace Pro
(www.calmspacepro.co.uk) also become part of health treatments as they address
the electro stress and informational interference, which accompanies modern envi-
ronments from technologies, phones, computers, and Wi-Fi radiation and many
times facilitates bodily weakness and even disease.
The re-conceptualizing of illness as an informational problem leads to the New
Paradigm taking an interest in curative and informational properties of natural
substances. In references to natural and traditional medicine the Manifesto on New
Paradigm Medicine states: “These practices and remedies are mostly dismissed if
not actually ignored by mainstream medicine. Yet many of them can be tested
and rendered more precise and beneficial by the use of instruments that measure
energy and information flows in the whole organism, as well as in a given part”
(Manifesto for a New Paradigm of Medicine, 2013, p. 3). The New Paradigm will
have mainstream clinical medicine explore a closer relationship with natural and
holistic methods.

Attention to the beneficial effects of natural substances and extending the scope
of attention to the entire psycho-physical organism are consistent with the aims
and mission of medical sciences. They are not alternatives but compliments to
the current practices, making better and fuller use of the information that governs
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the organism. … They are a logical development in the advance of medical

sciences. (Manifesto for a New Paradigm of Medicine, 2013, p. 3)

As oppose to our current medical framework, which emphasizes “symptom-

based medicine,” the new paradigm framework emphasizes cause-based analysis
of illness through an expanded understanding of the nature of the human being.
The old paradigm views illness as material and mechanistic as in line with classical
physics; the new paradigm sees illness as the manifestation of poor informational-
energetic flows and blocks and investigates the potential for these informational
causes to be re-programmed through regenerative and transformative processes.
The old paradigm, which heralds a number of diverse medical specialists, is in
our eyes overspecialized and the new paradigm seeks a more holistic understand-
ing of the illness as well as seeking to understand the psychological, social and
environmental factors perpetuating the illness.
Continuing with the CIRR framework, the second area of criticism through
which we can breed insight is the criticism coming from studies reviewing the
“social constituents of health,” which highlight the social conditions that are
creating the environments that breed illness. Medical Humanities have been at
the forefront of social research on health. Pioneering initiatives such as Harvard
University’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine are key in under-
standing the two main areas of social critique, which are “social suffering” and
“structural violence.”
Studies in social suffering state that suffering does not just happen in one per-
son, and that suffering is almost always social (i.e., the patient, family, friends, and
cultural context are all involved). Understanding the social context of suffering is
critical. Social forces be they political, economic, relationships or social institu-
tions, contribute to the vulnerability of the patient and sometimes to the actual
causing of the disease. Addressing social suffering is about improving the pro-
grams, not the patients. Harvard’s Global Health movement asserts that we cannot
blame the patients for poor health programs and poor resources. They have created
a bio-social case-based framework in order to understand and address social con-
stituents of health. The bio-social case-based framework is therefore important to
new paradigm research as we value addressing social aspects of health.
Social suffering goes hand in hand with structural violence. Dr. Paul Farmer
(2005, p. 50) is among the prominent thinkers in this field. He was the first to
define structural violence:

Structural violence refers to systemic ways in which social structures harm or

otherwise disadvantage individuals. Structural violence is subtle, often invisible,
and often has no one specific person who will be held responsible (in contrast
to behavioural violence) … structural violence is one way of describing social
arrangements that put individuals and populations in harms way … the arrange-
ments are structural because they are embedded in the political and economic
organization of our social world, they are violent because they cause injury to
people … historically given (and often economically driven) processes and forces
conspire to constrain individual agency. Structural violence is visited upon all
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those whose social status denies them access to the fruits of scientific and social
progress.

A great example of how to turn these social critiques into insights can be
heard through the wisdom of Dr. Gabor Mate, who is a public speaker as well
as renowned specialist in trauma and addiction. In an interview he explains how
consumerist and materialist culture is playing a severe role in mental illness and
how our social lives must change in order to decrease mental illness and breed
better health. He talks about “the myth of normal” and about how society creates
ideas about “normal people” versus “diseased people.” He argues,

What I see is a continuum … these traits from one day to another are present
in almost everybody and it’s a mythology to think that there’s the normal and
the abnormal … according to the research the best place to be a schizophrenic
is not North America with all it’s pharmacopeia but it’s a village in Africa or
India where there is acceptance, where people make room for your differentness,
where connection is not broken but is maintained, where you’re not excluded and
ostracized but where you’re welcomed, and where there is room for you to act out
whatever you need to act out and where you can express whatever you need to
express … and maybe find some meaning in your “craziness” … disease is not
an isolated phenomenon of an individual it’s a culturally manufactured, culturally
constructed paradigm … a society that cuts us off from spirituality, that cuts us
off from society by idealizing individualism, and by destroying social contexts
… a society which ignores our emotional needs is going to be a society which
generates pathology … it’s a materialistic society, so what we value is not who
people are but what they produce or what they consume … so the very nature of
this materialistic society dictates and promotes that separation from ourselves …
there is an intelligence in nature and creation, that if we ignore creates suffering
in ourselves and for other people.2

Dr. Mate clearly shows that there are also “social solutions” to our current
“social suffering,” and this is what the cultural shift toward the New Paradigm
of Health and Human Potential is all about.
The New Paradigm of Health and Human Potential is also about cultivating a
new culture for healthcare. Some characteristics of this cultural shift could be said
to be the following:

1. Moving away from materialistic culture (and materialistic science) and

aligning to the natural world personally (through forms of spirituality and
green living) and in practice (through integrating more natural and holistic
forms of medicine into treatments and programs.) The World Academy of Art
and Science also talks about the new paradigm of social sciences being social
sciences aligned with natural sciences. It can be said that the new paradigm
overall as a whole seeks a culture more aligned to the natural world and natural
intelligence.
2. Moving away from drug-based clinics hosting competitive medical pro-
fessionals to supporting an environment of wellbeing and healing. We
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believe that health treatments of all kinds should consist of some level of
psychotherapy, dialogue and learning between the doctor and patient. Har-
vard’s department of Global Health and Social Medicine talks about “Care-
giving and Prevention” as key factors in social medicine. Creating health as
an “activity of care” as well as a healthy way of life for disease prevention are
key aspects of the social medicine that are part of the new paradigm.
3. Exploring community-based care and community partnerships. These are
not new; there exist many models we can draw on and develop to enable this
cultural and institutional shift. Halfdan Mahler, one of the leaders in the his-
tory of global health and founder of the Primary Healthcare movement, looked
into community-based models. Public Health expert Kenneth Newell praised
integrating local Ayurvedic and biomedical practices in India and how they
drew on community participation for delivery. Another example of commu-
nity partnerships is the Cooperative Medical System and the “Barefoot Doc-
tor” movement in China, which has shown the benefits of community-based
medicine. Kenneth Newell (1975) showed through these two and other exam-
ples that when we partner clinical medicine with local modalities, that low
cost basic healthcare for everyone is possible through community participa-
tion. The New Paradigm seeks to build on these community partnership mod-
els and expand them through cutting edge technologies and the new forms of
medical and therapeutic knowledge brought forward by scientific revolutions.
4. One of the key themes of New Paradigm Medicine is that it is regenerative
and transformative. We once again re-iterate that the new paradigm engages
in cause-based analysis with expanded understanding of human as a psycho-
soma-informatic being. We therefore investigate the informatics-energetic and
psychosomatic aspects of illness and investigate the curative, regenerative,
and transformative potentials for a patient’s given situation and circumstance.
The knowledge of transformation is the knowledge of hope. By changing the
narrative of illness to one of transformation, re-building our beliefs about our-
selves and engaging in regenerative medicine the psychological theme of an
empowered culture emerges.
5. Valuing the whole person. As opposed to our current overspecialized med-
ical treatments, the new paradigm considers the whole person in treatments.
The whole person meaning thoughts, feelings, sensations, physical body, and
intuition. This can be seen in New Paradigm methods such as the PNEI
(psycho-neuro-endocrine-immunology) and extensions of this brought for-
ward by Dr. P. M. Biava (2000) of the human as a psycho-soma-informatic
being. The psychosomatic understanding of the human being places an impor-
tance on the mind–body information and points toward more holographic and
energetic-informational research on illness. But this value and deeper under-
standing of the human being also creates an environment where personalized
healthcare is valued, where seeing a doctor is not just about diagnosing phys-
ical symptoms but having a dialogue about a person’s life and creating a more
personalized treatment program to suit their individual needs. As an empow-
ered culture and one aware of healthcare’s past history with Foucaultian con-
cepts such as “Bio-Power” it would seek to engage the patient in learning
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about themselves and learning about their body. Engaging further dialogue
between the Doctor and Patient to enabling an empowering process and the
decentralization of medical knowledge. Giving the patient tools and options
and support for them to create a regenerative and transformative practice. All
services would seek to analyze the curative pallet of possibilities for a given
situation. It would seek for healthcare and healing processes to also be edu-
cational processes, which enable the patient to gain more knowledge about
themselves personally as well as their body.
6. Creativity, music, and arts will also be central in the culture of New
Paradigm of Health and Human Potential. Hand in hand with the psy-
chological theme of regenerative and transformative practice, music and arts
should form a way for people to re-imagine and re-invent themselves and their
lives both individually and collectively. Studies in Ethnomusicology (Gouk,
2000; Horden, 2000; Koen, 2008) have shown that music and arts have long
been a part of healing rituals throughout the world. And we must come to
think how we could perhaps safely and reliably re-create these. When review-
ing literature of healing rituals throughout the world you find many common
themes that align to the values of the New Paradigm. These are (a) creating
a space of no judgment (Hawkins, 2009), where you are able to (as Dr. Mate
says) “express and act out whatever you need to act out”3 ; (b) Many involve
energetic release through the body. This correlates to what we are discovering
in trauma-informed practice4 about emotions becoming “stuck” in the body
and therefore the need for sensory intervention and also correlates to what we
are finding in informational medicine in terms of increasing overall organism
coherence and the new concept that disease is a phenomenon of informational
incoherence. In the process of “matrix re-imprinting” and re-writing the nar-
rative of illness and bringing energetic and informational blockages to the
surface, creativity, music, and arts may well have a great role to play.

To these caring hearts and pioneering minds exploring the cutting edges of sci-
ence, holographic information, psychosomatics, informational-energetic causes of
illness, regenerative medicine, and models and practices for humanizing health-
care I give my deepest respect and gratitude. For it is this deeper understanding of
the human being and human potential that every human being on this planet can
equally participate in. It is in fact our god-given birthright as citizens of this planet
to be given the right, the knowledge, and the means to realize that beyond “the
absence of illness” there is an entire realm of self-realization, transformation, and
human potential. This change in social landscape can (and I believe should be) an
empowering awakening and individual and collective process of transformation
… an engaged enquiry where health and healing become a process through which
we all begin to realize the very nature of what we are and what it means to be
human. It is through this wider understanding that we can connect the arena of
health to larger human development and societal goals. I envision this process of
cultural change as nothing short of Global Catharsis … an individual and collec-
tive realization of the very nature of what we are, resulting in our evolution and
expansion of consciousness.
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FROM NEW KNOWLEDGE TO NEW STRUCTURES: EMERGING

FORMS OF PRACTICE IN NEW PARADIGM HEALTH AND MEDICINE
The final part of my CIRR framework is that following the “critiques and insights”
we enter a stage of “re-defining” and “re-structuring” our institutions and practices
based on the new forms of knowledge. What Foucault illuminates through his writ-
ings on BioPower is that knowledge, power, institutions, and inequity are central
to re-building practices of healthcare. What Harvard’s Global Health and Social
Medicine research is highlighting is the impact of institutions on lived experience.
It’s going to take time to re-structure practice, and of course different models will
work better in different contexts, but it is indeed possible and it is absolutely nec-
essary. Here are some examples of models, which can be developed with and for
the New Paradigm of Health and Human Potential.

1. The psycho-neuro-endocrine-immunology (PNEI) framework offers a

method for understanding and investigating potentials of psychosomatic and
natural cures (see Byrne, Christodoulou, Dienstfrey, Lipsitt, & Sivik, 2002). It
also offers psychosomatic training for psychologists and psychotherapists so
they can move beyond “talking therapy” and develop their practice through
a more expanded consciousness of the human being and therefore have the
opportunity not just to rehabilitate their patients but understand a pathway to
expanding their practice towards the development of human potential.
2. Paul Farmer created a model for “teaching hospitals.” (In a teaching hospital,
anything that does not “have to” have a doctor can have community members
train in.) In teaching hospitals the activity of health becomes a place where
doctors, communities, and patients dialogue and learn about health and heal-
ing together. The teaching hospital model is key for the New Paradigm as it
decentralizes medical knowledge through the “shared activity and dialogue
of health.” It also embodies the high importance of psychotherapy being an
integral part of all medical treatments. The more equal footing of doctors
and patients and a collaborative, dialogic, and community participation-based
approach is key for developing the cultural geography and environment of
safety, trust, empowerment, and collaboration central to the New Paradigm.
3. Community partnerships brought forward by Public Health expert Kenneth
Newell (1975) in the Primary Healthcare movement are useful models to draw
on to understand how unlocking diverse forms of medical knowledge and in
enabling a partnership between institutions and local modalities can cut costs
and make healthcare more affordable and accessible.
4. A great text for understanding the bio-social approach to global health and
international health infrastructures is the groundbreaking book Re-Imagining
Global Health (Farmer, Kim, Kleinman, & Basilico, 2013). This text also
re-visits the legendary Alma Atta Declaration and the potential for re-
instating those goals in global health infrastructures such as the World Health
Organization.
5. In order to move away from the sometimes damaging doctor–patient power
relationships and move more toward building environments of healing
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and a space for more sensory and holistic work, we recommend more
institutions and professionals to work with “trauma-informed practice”
(see note 4). The New Paradigm, in general, places a strong emphasis on
psychotherapy and doctor–patient dialogue being an integral part of all forms
of treatment. It would not be enough for a clinic to just have information
field technologies associated with the New Paradigm, the doctors must be
empowering their patients to access their body’s knowledge and engaging
in dialogue psychotheraputically. Trauma-informed practice is a great model
for understanding key components of how institutions can be structured to
operate this way.
6. The Relief from Pain (www.relieffrompain.org) charity is working to take UK
accredited holistic practices into National Health Service (NHS) hospitals in
order to enhance treatments and speed up patient recovery. Their work aims
also to show how to cut costs by showing how patients who also have the
support of complementary therapies leave the hospital quicker and are less
prone to complications. Because their treatment then takes less time and the
patient is less likely to come back, more hospital beds are freed. They aim to
demonstrate the practical benefits for the hospital and community as well as
medical benefits of including complementary and holistic practice.
7. Spiritualist hospitals (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22052248) in
Brazil include the option for mental health patients to receive council and
optional services from a psychic and/or shamans and for this information and
possibilities to be included and integrated into the treatment program accord-
ing to the patient’s requests. The spiritualist hospitals have managed to record
and document some very fascinating stories of recovery and statistics that are
highlighting key areas of research that have not yet been reviewed by main-
stream mental health and have the potential to provide key insights on how to
possibly expand mental health treatment options and programs.
8. Preventative medicine, body awareness, and engaging in a healthy lifestyle
also form a key part of New Paradigm practice. An example of such a program
could be The Woman Code natural diet and menstrual cycle solutions program
(www.floliving.com), which is an online program that teaches woman how to
resolve their menstrual cycle problems by learning to eat and live accord-
ing to the phases of their menstrual cycle. Such a program, which integrates
healthy eating and exercise with a woman’s menstrual cycle, shows how New
Paradigm programs should be structured not to be one-off diet plans but form
an integral part of the patient’s life where they themselves engage in learning
new knowledge about themselves and their bodies. Healthy lifestyle programs
that also enable the patient to learn about themselves and their own bodies are
key qualities of the kinds of “healthy lifestyle learning” that is at the heart of
the New Paradigm in Health and Human Potential.
9. Arts-based community therapy models for re-inventing culture and re-
establishing human connections are not only useful in mental health support
but also as an ongoing process of individual and collective learning. Long-
established methods such as Augosto Boal’s (1979/2000) Theatre of the
Oppressed remain incredibly useful and accessible. New methods of com-
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munity therapy and in particular community music therapy (Ansdell &

Pavlicevic, 2004) and even Applied Ethnomusicology (Harrison, Mackinlay,
& Pettan) are useful for reviewing modalities and assessing in which context
they could be applied. Working with creative arts for methods to re-write
collective narratives, rehearsing social change, and creating spaces of no
judgment and safe spaces where expression and differences are valued, are
key social elements of a cultural environment that can reduce the factors that
perpetuate trauma, highlight new possibilities and breed an environment of
care that is central to the cultural aspects of the New Paradigm in Health and
Human Potential.
10. Advanced methods such as Harmonic Therapies (Siddique, 2017) are
being developed combining cutting edge information field technologies with
electro-photonic-imaging data together with creative arts and music to directly
pinpoint the frequencies, informatics blockages, and imbalances of the patient
and to work psychotherapeutically to re-imprint and re-balance their mind–
body coherence. Working the information field technologies together with the
creative therapies and music has enabled the patient to re-write their narrative
of illness and personal story as well as engage in a cathartic release of the
psycho-emotional imbalances behind the illness and finally also receive the
exact informatics information and frequencies needed to re-structure the infor-
mation that was causing the illness. By diagnosing key factors of a persons
age, condition, history, and circumstance a range of possibilities and options
can be brought forward that, depending on the patient’s commitment to them-
selves and program, can have curative and long term results.

The New Paradigm advances the scope, potential, and possibilities of medicine
and supports the greater understanding and value for the advancement of heath
and wellbeing for individuals and society.

THE NEW PARADIGM OF HEALTH, REGENERATION, AND HUMAN

POTENTIAL
The fundamental difference of the new paradigm from the old is in the knowledge
base and conception of the human being and therefore nature of health and nature
of illness.

The new paradigm emerging in the sciences recognizes that the universe is not
random … the classical idea of inert matter moving mechanically in passive and
empty space has been transcended … the dynamic processes of cosmic, biolog-
ical, human, and social-cultural evolution are neither deterministic or random:
they exhibit a level of order and coherence that suggests the presence of an under-
lying logic. Understanding the nature of this logic is the perennial task of science
and philosophy, as well as of religion and spirituality … a recognition of the
paramount role of information in the world of life holds major implications for
medical science. (Manifesto for a New Paradigm of Medicine, 2013, p. 1)
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VALUES AND ACTIONS FOR MAKING THE PARADIGM SHIFT

As mentioned before and as clearly outlined by the CIRR framework, all the key
elements of a genuine paradigm shift are here and it’s now up to us to work together
to bring it into fruition. There is nothing that brings people together stronger than
shared values. So I am going to outline some of the key values of the New Paradigm
for Health and Human Potential as well as some key things individuals and orga-
nizations can do to start to work toward it. The values of the new paradigm could
be summarized, outlined, and understood as follows:

1. Humanizing Healthcare. The new realities posed by scientific revolutions

in combination with the holistic understanding of the human being, comple-
mented by literature on social, structural, and pathological aspects of illness,
forms an integral framework for humanizing healthcare. People and organi-
zations involved in humanizing healthcare or “re-imagining global health”
(Basilico, Farmer, Kim, & Kleinman, 2013) can all contribute to bringing for-
ward the new paradigm by:
a. Identifying “blind spots.” Broadening the understanding of the wider
aspects of health, be they personal, psycho-emotional, informatics-
energetic, interpersonal, social, as well as structural.
b. Advocating cause-based analysis of illness for research, treatments, and
program design.
c. Advocating the importance of addressing the psychological and emotional
aspects of illness.
d. Highlighting the social aspects of medicine: developing innovative pro-
grams that address issues of structural violence, social suffering, and
pathologies of power.
e. Valuing “caregiving” in theory in practice and re-establishing environ-
ments and cultures of health and wellbeing.
2. New requirements for Healthcare Professionals:
a. As the New Paradigm holds a new understanding of the nature of illness,
we value our doctors and therapists to be trained not just in medical knowl-
edge but also to have wider skills. Many new paradigm practitioners have
brought these insights forward:
i. Dr. Meissner states that “Healthcare professionals/therapists should be
empathetic, intuitive and have shamanic-like skills for energetic sensi-
tivity to the patients deeper needs.” (Laszlo Institute 2017).
ii. Dr. Montecucco argues that a new paradigm doctor/therapist “Should
achieve a level of psychosomatic competency and self-development in
using PNEI” (Laszlo Institute 2017).
iii. Drs. Goswami and Pattani argue that the “Psychotherapist needs to
have undertaken significant self-development themselves before work-
ing with patients” (to be published). Drs. Goswami and Pattani in this
quantum-based approach highlight the importance of valuing and hon-
oring the diversity of experience and therefore not seeing the patient’s
mental health situation as anything “wrong” with them; they are sim-
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ply going through a process of “re-wiring.” In line with research in

post-traumatic growth, they show how the damaged part of the brain
through a self-development and regenerative process can grow and
develop even further than a person whose brain has not undergone the
traumatic “damage.” This valuing for wider experience that changes
the narratives around mental illness and engages transformative prac-
tice that can expand in neurological growth is the kind of work in line
with the values of the New Paradigm of Health and Human Potential.
b. Although developing a precise criteria is an area still in development, the
overall goal of the New Paradigm in Health and Human Potential seeks for
healthcare practitioners to live the philosophical understanding that health
is a way of life and an ongoing process of self-realization and learning.
3. Accessing Care: Our enhanced understanding of health as an ongoing process
for the realization for human potential means that we believe that the right to a
healthy life is the birthright of every human being. We advocate programs for
healthy living and disease prevention as well as enhanced healthcare options
and holistic services. We would love to see more community partnerships such
as the ones public health expert Kenneth Newell brought forward in the Pri-
mary Healthcare movement.
4. Psychotherapy, Feedback dialogue and learning.
a. Dr. Paul Farmer’s “teaching hospital” is a great example of this. We
believe that both doctors and patients should be working and learning
together about the processes of health and healing. Mutual dialogue, psy-
chotherapy, and the sharing of health-related knowledge are key psycho-
logical features and also key factors that play a role in decentralization of
medical knowledge, which is essential for the paradigm shift.
b. We advocate service user feedback to be a central component when
reviewing the effectiveness of a medical service. Rather than just insti-
tutions and specialists, the feedback and insights of the service users
must be included. An example of how service user feedback can be uti-
lized for more effective treatments and programs is Community Options
(http://www.community-options.org.uk/).
c. We endorse trauma-informed practice (option-based participation, shared
decision making, and sensory psychotherapy work; see note 4) and would
seek for trauma-informed practice to be more widely incorporated in
all psychotherapeutic arenas and developed as an integral part of New
Paradigm treatments.
d. Harvard’s bio-social case-based framework is a great study and dialogue
tool for unwrapping the social constituents of health. We recommend
more research in this area.
5. Addressing Toxic Environments. The electronic, digital, and wireless
systems of the old paradigm are rapidly proving to be causal factors in an
unprecedented epidemic of global disease. This is affecting people, animals,
and the whole biosphere. The time is upon us to establish organic wellness
solutions that serve both humanity and the Earth. New paradigm solutions
that support the health of all living beings are already in existence but remain
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virtually unknown to the general public. These alternative technologies are

sourced from rich organic, mineral, and plant kingdoms and/or harness the
energy of the universe. They are available to nearly everyone and everywhere.
It is critical that we prioritize these technologies if we are to bring to a halt and
then reverse the devastating impact of dangerous technologies on the delicate
ecosystems of life on this planet. Emerging technologies such as Calmspace-
Pro (www.calmspacepro.co.uk) form an important part of neutralizing
toxins and developing consciousness around healthy informatics-energetic
environments.

WAYS FORWARD FOR NEW PARADIGM RESEARCH

The more we develop new paradigm literature through case studies, prototypes,
experiments, and testing, the better grounds we will have for building more
comprehensive systems for New Paradigm Healthcare institutions, treatments,
therapies, and programs. The frontiers of this field are vast and in all areas we are
“re-defining the possible.” Some of the important areas and themes are outlined
in this final section.
The nature of the new realities and set of possibilities employed within the
new paradigm require us to not only re-structure narratives around health and
illness, but also go deeper to perhaps even change the language we use in edu-
cation and research. “I think we need a more poetic language to describe life
processes,” remarked Carlo Ventura at the Laszlo Institute Symposium on New
Paradigm Healthcare (2017). This desire for change in language as to how we
take about health and life processes was also echoed in the Manifesto for New
Paradigm Medicine (2013). This change in language is greatly important in the re-
writing of research and training as well as cultivating a new paradigm of culture in
healthcare.
The research in Medical Humanities is pushing more and more interdisci-
plinary research on healthcare, engaging both qualitative and quantitative data
and measurements. Harvard’s bio-social case-based framework is a good exam-
ple of engaging both qualitative and quantitative methods. Other good sugges-
tions have been put forward in the Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology
(Koen, 2008) for new ways to research music and healing. The Manifesto for New
Paradigm Medicine also argues that medicine should be studied in a transdisci-
plinary way. It states that there is “the need for medical schools that can elabo-
rate a new and effective transdisciplinary integration capable of operating on the
above outlined informational basis and prepare therapists to read the dual lan-
guages of symbolic and semiotic information in the organism” (Manifesto for a
New Paradigm of Medicine, 2013) Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary commu-
nities of researchers should engage in conversations for undertaking collaborative
research based on the common new paradigm values outlined in this article. A
collaborative research effort grown from shared values for a noble cause is bound
to bring forth fruitful and useful innovation.
One of the most exciting and groundbreaking aspects of the New Paradigm of
Health and Human Potential are the new frameworks available to research “regen-
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erative medicine.” Dr. Ventura gives a great example of this with his research on
re-programing cancer cell information.5 As expressed by both Dr. Montecucco
(Laszlo Institute 2017) and Dr. Meissner (Laszlo Institute 2017) in their respec-
tive New Paradigm Medicine courses, both mention that “the limitations and weak-
nesses of mainstream medicine should be understood” following which we should
seek ways to overcome traditional boundaries based on the understanding gained
from the PsychoSoma and Informatic nature of the human being. Montecucco
suggests we seek to “understand the different levels of a given disease (symp-
toms, causes, reasons) and find appropriate ways of treatment on either level or
even better forms of healing and regeneration” (Laszlo Institute 2017) Research
in regenerative medicine reveals that “illness” can be transformed. Exploring these
regenerative and transformative capacities are central to building the research lit-
erature in the New Paradigm of Health and Human Potential.
Finally, the New Paradigm of Health and Human Potential seeks to build even
further the relationship between science and philosophy. The research aims to take
traditional research “out of the clinic” and “out of the laboratory” and “engaged
in the natural world.” Questions and hypothesizes should aim to be in the context
of a wider philosophical enquiry that enables engaging in deeper reflections about
the nature of life, matter, existence, evolution, and human experience, in order
to explore and develop more advanced research and technologies on eco-systems
capable of ensuring the enhancing of human wellbeing and potential.

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

These are both exciting and critical times. Never before has there been such
ground-breaking research available, fundamentally re-defining the nature of the
human being and what could be possible for the future of medicine. I hope to
have awakened you to the severe flaws in our current system, but also hope to
have inspired you about the kinds of possibilities, potential, and value that the
New Paradigm in Health and Human Potential can offer.
The psychosomatic and informational-energetic understanding of the human
being leaves us with an array of possibilities and philosophical questions. Rather
than being overwhelming, I would love for these to become inspirational. A quest
to discover and experience the very nature of what we are. Rather than stigmatizing
people as “diseased” we can see them as people who are holding opportunities for
transformation.
Just as the brain grows and extends beyond “normal” after the “traumatic
damage” through a process of posttraumatic growth, I hope that we more and
more learn to see “illness” as an opportunity of transformation. As innovative
technologies such as TimeWaver’s Information Field devices help us pinpoint
the psycho-emotional causes of illness we aim for the cathartic release of these
blockages to transform through a process of personal re-invention. It is my wish
that we all break the shackles of this disease-based system of symptomology and
despair, and may we all transform this narrative of “illness verse health” into a
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dynamic dialogue and a process of individual and collective realization of human

potential and expansion of our consciousness.

NOTES
1. This process of “humanization” refers to the humanization versus dehumanization processes out-
lined in Paulo Friere’s (2005) Pedagogy of the Oppressed. It can also be noted to tie into key themes
and values in the humanizing healthcare movement.
2. Gabor Mate, full interview: http://theunboundedspirit.com/myth-of-normal/. For more about Dr.
Gabor Mate see: https://drgabormate.com/about/
3. Ibid.
4. For more information on trauma-informed care and trauma-informed practice see The National
Centre for Trauma Informed Care. Retrieved from https://www.samhsa.gov/nctic/trauma-
interventions
5. If you’re interested in new paradigm research in regenerative medicine, a good example is Dr.
Carlos Ventura’s work in re-programming cells. His full lecture at the Laszlo Institute can be viewed
here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFSSKY6AUF8

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