The church made its own holy warriors - its own jihadists - the medical doctors.
By integrating medicine into ecclesiastical structures, the church ensured that treatments were reported and sanctioned, allowing oversight of terminal illnesses and even potential euthanasia through substances like liquid opium in priests’ kits.
The Old Testament verse, “He who sins before his Maker shall fall into the hands of the physician,” encapsulated the church’s cynical and practical view and use of its new “demigods in white.”
Monasteries became key medical centers, but this was less about altruism and more about welfare-like control, with the church dominating the direction of medical knowledge and labeling dissenting views as heresy. Jewish doctors, who possessed broader knowledge, were stigmatized and often excluded, especially when church elites hypocritically summoned them for personal care.
This institutionalization set the stage for medicine’s harmful trajectory. The church’s healers focused on toxic remedies like antimony, mercury, and arsenic, while self-limiting illnesses were left to pilgrimage sites for placebo effects. During the Renaissance “reset,” the church’s witch hunts eliminated midwives and herbalists, paving the way for medicalized births that caused millions of maternal and infant deaths.
Critical perspectives highlight how this era’s medicine was not progressive but regressive, stifling holistic traditions in favor of church-sanctioned poisons and procedures that undermined natural self-healing. The church’s dual role—providing care through monasteries while forbidding innovation—ensured medicine served power and profit, not people, a pattern that persist today.
(What started as intellectual hubris morphed into moral rot. The ensouled -feeling world was declared dead, ripe for plunder.
Medicine, academia and tyrants swallowed this poison whole: the body as faulty machine, illness as glitch, repression as a great business, the doctor as wrench-wielding overlord supported by predatory business/politics and protected by the church and Judiciary:
Tyrants—whether individuals or embedded traditions—thrive on sickness, death, chaos, fragmentation, and division. They attack not just bodies, but psyches – ignoring and destroying our self regulation: sowing fear, undermining autonomy, and demanding obedience. But when self-regulation is eroded—when people lose the capacity to say stop, say no, to set a boundary—the tyrant’s cruelty becomes internalized.
“Without developing the ability to say ‘no,’ set boundaries … the individual may submit to oppressive dynamics … leading to deeply felt weakness and learned helplessness” In essence, tyranny and rage metastasise inside us.
Thank you for your words Dr. Desmet. I wanted to add that in Egypt these salafist grooming gangs have been around since at least the 70s, they have been kidnapping young Coptic minor girls, rape them film them and force them to convert to Islam in a country where Islam is the only religion you can't convert away from, A jihad of the wombs as they call it. The government has been complicit in it with Al-Azhar and the State Security Agency or the Egyptian Stasi if you will, all playing their parts. Coptic Solidarity has documented myriads of cases, and now in Syria we see the same happening to Alawites women. This is the ugly face of Islam, once they reach a certain threshhold in a society they start destroying it from within, it has nothing to do with Mass Formation or propaganda, that's their modus operandi, it hasn't changed since the 7th century, and of course the woke leftists are complicit in this, they want these migratory waves to destroy western civilization. Islam will make your societies miserable and horrible, just as it did to mine Egypt.
Your summation is a noble consideration, but is it possible that truth can be achieved or is it naive to believe given the world’s fundamental belief in clannish behaviour started many millennia before achieving “civilized” status?
Examples (not meant to focus on any one ethnic group):
• “we are better than them”
• “you wouldn’t want your sister marrying one”
• “our religion is better than yours”
• “We are God’s chosen people”
Perhaps the prefix you might have been looking for in describing pursuit of truth is courage - also a fundamental human characteristic, or at least it was.
As we seem to be drifting away from direct human contact, now interfaced with machines, computers and AI, it becomes easier to deal with issues indirectly, eventually ebbing into bureaucracy and away from the primary emotions constituting fundamental human behaviour.
As we do so, our conversations revolve more around ethical and moral ways to pick up a turd by its clean end than the actual business of disposing it. Consider that.
Now, don't go getting any foolish ideas. The law is applied selectively. Public outrage is selective, too. I’ll say just one thing: if a society wants to ensure the next generation and social cohesion, it shouldn't demonize human sexuality—hence this selective application.
I believe your conclusion must add your earlier point: "The restoration of the Law therefore depends upon the restoration of Truth within our culture. In Western civilisation, propaganda—that is, organised falsehood—has increasingly become a central organising principle. As a consequence, lawlessness becomes almost inevitable, as it has in every bureaucratic and totalitarian system." to your stated conclusion: "From a psychological perspective, my conclusion is this: only a community united by the resonance of sincere speech can overcome the dictatorship of propagandised masses and bring the age of totalitarianism to an end – thereby restoring the Law to its proper place as Law." And we must then, like Pilate, voice the inevitable question: "What is truth?" But, unlike Pilate, we must recognize the answer standing before him.
Yesterday I shared Mattias Desmet´s conversation with Glenn Diesen on YouTube. I got a little more insight into the free-palestina-actionists. Have they made the Jews subject for their mass formation? It made med write this comment:
Thanks to Mattias Desmet for making me see Palestinian activism in a clearer light today! I am grateful that I had such good contact with him in Oslo a year ago, when both Desmet and Diesen spoke at the FOR party's event. Desmet showed clear relief when I expressed my concern about Islam.
In this conversation, Desmet mentions the Jews as an example of an object of fear. Mass formation is manifested, among other things, by repeated slogans. Leaders in the FOR party, to which Disen has been affiliated, show this obsession with slogans that is typical of mass formation: "Genocide", "occupation", "From the river to the sea."
Such mass formation can make intelligent people completely blind to concrete facts. Unfortunately, the Palestine activists do not see that the "Palestinians" are oppressed by an ideology that does not shy away from real genocide, and which actually has genocide of Jews on its agenda. There are nearly 2 billion Muslims on earth and approx. 12 million Jews.
The Muslim Brotherhood has world power as its goal. A Muslim says it clearly in a video I link to in the comments. It is important for us in Norway, yes, most of Europe now, because they have come a long way in their strategies.
Desmet believes the only solution is for those who see, to dare to stand up. I have seen this for years and have lost friends because I have expressed my knowledge. But it will happen again - and then it is good to have Mattias Desmet behind me.
I think your conclusions are wrong. You totally miss the fact that there are people in power who are using the division and manufacturing the denials form the larger benefit for remaining in power and keeping the population distracted.
And/or the machines out people in power and give us the illusion that our vote made a difference. But to your point, yes we the people are responsible for allowing such horrible rulers.
Mattias, thank you, regrettably far to few people will read this insightful analysis. I for one agree with your conclusions and feel only sadness for the ignored victims.
Ironically, as government compounds its damage to our societies, the more citizens look to government to solve the problems. It is after all how they have been trained.
In the UK/Europe the situation is critical as the tyranny of crushing dissent gains momentum. Some leadership in the US seek the same path, others not so, but our economic system by design, built on credit and lacking sound money, has resulted in extraordinary wealth inequality. Our governments and the institutions who are vested in the system, benefiting from the system, which is will not willingly seek or implement solutions that will offer justice to their citizens.
History shows that crisis alone will drive the magnitude of change that is necessary when there is no longer any choice. Those dependent on the government will be most exposed to "Les Miserable". The riots are just a moment in time on this path. The individual and their communities offer the best safety against what is to come. Isolate yourself from the political and government to the greatest degree you are able. Take great care of those around you and your community.
Once again, I invite all you who loved this article to read Bastiaat- The Law. It is mandatory reading to understand the depth of plunder we are subjected to today.
I loved your take on this topic Mattias. I'll certainly check myself, my thoughts, my prejudices in future. I'm sad for everyone affected by the unacceptable behaviour and appalled that anyone could sink so low as to want to break the spirit of another so cruelly. Including those who are charged with dealing with it. As for the victims - God help us all.
The most telling detail isn’t in the report — it’s in the response to it. The fact-checks engage the 250,000 estimate, which is an extrapolation and can be argued with, and walk straight past the numbers that can’t be: 1,400 documented in one town, over a thousand in Telford, convictions totalling centuries. When scrutiny attaches only to the weakest figure and never to the hardest ones, it stops being scrutiny and becomes a way of not looking!
I got two top suggestions for people to follow on Substack: you and Roger Waters. I only chose one.
The church made its own holy warriors - its own jihadists - the medical doctors.
By integrating medicine into ecclesiastical structures, the church ensured that treatments were reported and sanctioned, allowing oversight of terminal illnesses and even potential euthanasia through substances like liquid opium in priests’ kits.
The Old Testament verse, “He who sins before his Maker shall fall into the hands of the physician,” encapsulated the church’s cynical and practical view and use of its new “demigods in white.”
Monasteries became key medical centers, but this was less about altruism and more about welfare-like control, with the church dominating the direction of medical knowledge and labeling dissenting views as heresy. Jewish doctors, who possessed broader knowledge, were stigmatized and often excluded, especially when church elites hypocritically summoned them for personal care.
This institutionalization set the stage for medicine’s harmful trajectory. The church’s healers focused on toxic remedies like antimony, mercury, and arsenic, while self-limiting illnesses were left to pilgrimage sites for placebo effects. During the Renaissance “reset,” the church’s witch hunts eliminated midwives and herbalists, paving the way for medicalized births that caused millions of maternal and infant deaths.
Critical perspectives highlight how this era’s medicine was not progressive but regressive, stifling holistic traditions in favor of church-sanctioned poisons and procedures that undermined natural self-healing. The church’s dual role—providing care through monasteries while forbidding innovation—ensured medicine served power and profit, not people, a pattern that persist today.
(What started as intellectual hubris morphed into moral rot. The ensouled -feeling world was declared dead, ripe for plunder.
Medicine, academia and tyrants swallowed this poison whole: the body as faulty machine, illness as glitch, repression as a great business, the doctor as wrench-wielding overlord supported by predatory business/politics and protected by the church and Judiciary:
https://vegetativetraining.wordpress.com/dark-reality-orientation-the-attack-paradigm-self-regulation-and-the-war-on-feeling/
Tyrants—whether individuals or embedded traditions—thrive on sickness, death, chaos, fragmentation, and division. They attack not just bodies, but psyches – ignoring and destroying our self regulation: sowing fear, undermining autonomy, and demanding obedience. But when self-regulation is eroded—when people lose the capacity to say stop, say no, to set a boundary—the tyrant’s cruelty becomes internalized.
“Without developing the ability to say ‘no,’ set boundaries … the individual may submit to oppressive dynamics … leading to deeply felt weakness and learned helplessness” In essence, tyranny and rage metastasise inside us.
https://vegetativetraining.wordpress.com/attack-paradigm-self-regulation-and-the-restoration-of-reality/
wat had je dan verwacht van een systeem gebaseerd op belastingen ?!?
Thought provoking.
Thank you for your words Dr. Desmet. I wanted to add that in Egypt these salafist grooming gangs have been around since at least the 70s, they have been kidnapping young Coptic minor girls, rape them film them and force them to convert to Islam in a country where Islam is the only religion you can't convert away from, A jihad of the wombs as they call it. The government has been complicit in it with Al-Azhar and the State Security Agency or the Egyptian Stasi if you will, all playing their parts. Coptic Solidarity has documented myriads of cases, and now in Syria we see the same happening to Alawites women. This is the ugly face of Islam, once they reach a certain threshhold in a society they start destroying it from within, it has nothing to do with Mass Formation or propaganda, that's their modus operandi, it hasn't changed since the 7th century, and of course the woke leftists are complicit in this, they want these migratory waves to destroy western civilization. Islam will make your societies miserable and horrible, just as it did to mine Egypt.
Exceptional essay—thank you. Continued success in your important work and good endeavors.
Your summation is a noble consideration, but is it possible that truth can be achieved or is it naive to believe given the world’s fundamental belief in clannish behaviour started many millennia before achieving “civilized” status?
Examples (not meant to focus on any one ethnic group):
• “we are better than them”
• “you wouldn’t want your sister marrying one”
• “our religion is better than yours”
• “We are God’s chosen people”
Perhaps the prefix you might have been looking for in describing pursuit of truth is courage - also a fundamental human characteristic, or at least it was.
As we seem to be drifting away from direct human contact, now interfaced with machines, computers and AI, it becomes easier to deal with issues indirectly, eventually ebbing into bureaucracy and away from the primary emotions constituting fundamental human behaviour.
As we do so, our conversations revolve more around ethical and moral ways to pick up a turd by its clean end than the actual business of disposing it. Consider that.
Now, don't go getting any foolish ideas. The law is applied selectively. Public outrage is selective, too. I’ll say just one thing: if a society wants to ensure the next generation and social cohesion, it shouldn't demonize human sexuality—hence this selective application.
I believe your conclusion must add your earlier point: "The restoration of the Law therefore depends upon the restoration of Truth within our culture. In Western civilisation, propaganda—that is, organised falsehood—has increasingly become a central organising principle. As a consequence, lawlessness becomes almost inevitable, as it has in every bureaucratic and totalitarian system." to your stated conclusion: "From a psychological perspective, my conclusion is this: only a community united by the resonance of sincere speech can overcome the dictatorship of propagandised masses and bring the age of totalitarianism to an end – thereby restoring the Law to its proper place as Law." And we must then, like Pilate, voice the inevitable question: "What is truth?" But, unlike Pilate, we must recognize the answer standing before him.
Yesterday I shared Mattias Desmet´s conversation with Glenn Diesen on YouTube. I got a little more insight into the free-palestina-actionists. Have they made the Jews subject for their mass formation? It made med write this comment:
Thanks to Mattias Desmet for making me see Palestinian activism in a clearer light today! I am grateful that I had such good contact with him in Oslo a year ago, when both Desmet and Diesen spoke at the FOR party's event. Desmet showed clear relief when I expressed my concern about Islam.
In this conversation, Desmet mentions the Jews as an example of an object of fear. Mass formation is manifested, among other things, by repeated slogans. Leaders in the FOR party, to which Disen has been affiliated, show this obsession with slogans that is typical of mass formation: "Genocide", "occupation", "From the river to the sea."
Such mass formation can make intelligent people completely blind to concrete facts. Unfortunately, the Palestine activists do not see that the "Palestinians" are oppressed by an ideology that does not shy away from real genocide, and which actually has genocide of Jews on its agenda. There are nearly 2 billion Muslims on earth and approx. 12 million Jews.
The Muslim Brotherhood has world power as its goal. A Muslim says it clearly in a video I link to in the comments. It is important for us in Norway, yes, most of Europe now, because they have come a long way in their strategies.
Desmet believes the only solution is for those who see, to dare to stand up. I have seen this for years and have lost friends because I have expressed my knowledge. But it will happen again - and then it is good to have Mattias Desmet behind me.
I think your conclusions are wrong. You totally miss the fact that there are people in power who are using the division and manufacturing the denials form the larger benefit for remaining in power and keeping the population distracted.
The people elect the people in power.
And/or the machines out people in power and give us the illusion that our vote made a difference. But to your point, yes we the people are responsible for allowing such horrible rulers.
Mattias, thank you, regrettably far to few people will read this insightful analysis. I for one agree with your conclusions and feel only sadness for the ignored victims.
Ironically, as government compounds its damage to our societies, the more citizens look to government to solve the problems. It is after all how they have been trained.
In the UK/Europe the situation is critical as the tyranny of crushing dissent gains momentum. Some leadership in the US seek the same path, others not so, but our economic system by design, built on credit and lacking sound money, has resulted in extraordinary wealth inequality. Our governments and the institutions who are vested in the system, benefiting from the system, which is will not willingly seek or implement solutions that will offer justice to their citizens.
History shows that crisis alone will drive the magnitude of change that is necessary when there is no longer any choice. Those dependent on the government will be most exposed to "Les Miserable". The riots are just a moment in time on this path. The individual and their communities offer the best safety against what is to come. Isolate yourself from the political and government to the greatest degree you are able. Take great care of those around you and your community.
Once again, I invite all you who loved this article to read Bastiaat- The Law. It is mandatory reading to understand the depth of plunder we are subjected to today.
I loved your take on this topic Mattias. I'll certainly check myself, my thoughts, my prejudices in future. I'm sad for everyone affected by the unacceptable behaviour and appalled that anyone could sink so low as to want to break the spirit of another so cruelly. Including those who are charged with dealing with it. As for the victims - God help us all.
The most telling detail isn’t in the report — it’s in the response to it. The fact-checks engage the 250,000 estimate, which is an extrapolation and can be argued with, and walk straight past the numbers that can’t be: 1,400 documented in one town, over a thousand in Telford, convictions totalling centuries. When scrutiny attaches only to the weakest figure and never to the hardest ones, it stops being scrutiny and becomes a way of not looking!